Occupational and Environmental Health Hazards in the Plastics Industry

By Eckardt, Robert E.

Book Id: WPLBN0000025707
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Occupational and Environmental Health Hazards in the Plastics Industry
Author:	Eckardt, Robert E.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Excerpt: It is impossible, in the time allotted today, to describe for you in any detail all of the occupational and environmental health hazards of plastics. At best, all we can hope to do is outline some of the more obvious ones in a general way. I have previously reviewed this topic in more detail (1). We might start by defining a plastic as a material that contains as an essential ingredient an organic substance of large molecular weight, is solid in its finished state, and, at some stage in its manufacture or in its processing into finished articles, can be shaped by flow (2) . In many cases, the terms plastic and resin are used in an overlapping sense. However, strictly speaking, a resin is the more or less homogeneous polymer used as the starting material in the production of a molded article, while plastic signifies the finished product which may contain fillers, plasticizers, stabilizers, pigments, etc.