Production of retort pouches, film-sealed trays, and other types of glued and fused structures is fraught with problems when taken to the production stage. Often a producer of such packages relies on manual inspection, which is unpredictable, or on a variety of slow, destructive, or unreliable testing methods to reduce the number of defective seals. […]
December 2014 Monthly Archives
PLOS ONE Paper on Plastic Waste in World’s Oceans
Much of tonnage of this is large (lost fishing gear etc.) but the largest number of particles are microplastics. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0111913