Modern times is without plastic unimaginable. Anyone reading this web page, sits in front of a computer. Which, for the most part, is made of plastics. Plastic is found in every area of life of people, at work and at home. Plastic has, without doubt, crucial advantages compared to other materials. Crude oil is the raw material and can be used cheaply and varied. Plastic has a long life. Left to itself, it rots in about 300 years. In...

After a couple of cold days, full of rain and wind, the sun shines again. In the afternoon I took a walk on the shore. At such a day, Louis Armstrong (1) must have decided to record the song What a Wonderful World. The sea is not as angry as it was just yesterday. Still the waves were quiet high and powerful.   At the entrance of the old port, I leaned over the balustrade. The sun warmed my back and from the front it was windy and...

  One of the materials which characterizes modern time is Plastic. Plastic is to be found everywhere. Life without plastic would be impossible today. Right now, as you read this post you are using plastic, the computer is mostly made of plastic. As a matter of fact, glass and steel are also synthetic matters. But since they are known to us for thousands of years, we tend to take them as granted. With plastic it is something else. Plastic...