Recycling and valorization the French cultural handicap

Our environmental awareness is recent, even very recent. French manufacturers have for a long time remained disinterested in what was happening beyond then-borders. What have they foimd Plastics in Germaity - produced by the same companies - sell better, are more expensive, with better margins. What does it mean A much better pictme for plastics in Germany. 

10 Source Plasticseurope/Consultic Marketing und Industrieberatung GmbH. 

We have entered into a culture of zero risk. Om role of industry is to integrate and even anticipate this evolution and its impact on the composition of our products. And the media s role is to alert us. Provided, however, that this does not become overblown. However, in the case of bisphenol A, from dramatization to dramatization, the media have come to say that the mere touch of a drink, food or our skin with a polycarbonate containing bisphenol A poisoned our blood - and no matter that it enables the manufacture of a very transparent plastic, a quality particularly necessary in incubators for premature babies, for example. 

First point, the chemical reality, bisphenol A in a pure state is actually a product to be handled with care. Injected as such in laboratory to rats and at high doses, it is clear that it has negative effects on their body. But the chemical polymerization reaction traps the bisphenol A and neutraUzes it. Once entered into the composition of a polycarbonate material, for example a baby bottle, it becomes inert. It is necessary to heat the polycarbonate to above 100°C to observe the release of bisphenol A molecules. Therefore, what can be proved by experiments performed on rats which have been injected with pure bisphenol A  

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