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Positive Plastics: Designing Better Samples of Sustainable Plastics for Industrial Designers
This is 100% true and a very good idea. I work in a plastic sheet factory and we are many layers removed from the designers. i can be getting a request for a sheet from a thermoformer who was asked by a POP display manufacturer who may or may not have an inhouse designer who deals with a marketing company who deals with a makeup giant such as loreal who has a junior designer spec’ing materials while following the marketing’s sustainability guidelines.
Extremely stable plastic like PEEK should have a bigger role in the future, because it can tolerate 250 C, UV, chemicals, and is hydrophobic, makes it hard to become contaminated and therefore easier to recycle. And it is also non-toxic, completely inert, it won't contaminate the environment and our body too.