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Synthetic Polymers “Plastics”

Synthetic Polymers “Plastics”. https :// www.youtube.com / watch?v = PSxihhBzCjk. The Graduate: Dustin Hoffman (1967). Polymers. Polymers. Macromolecules which are made from small molecules, monomers, or co-monomers which structurally repeat themselves . Monomer Polymer

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Synthetic Polymers “Plastics”

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  1. Synthetic Polymers“Plastics” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSxihhBzCjk The Graduate: Dustin Hoffman (1967)

  2. Polymers

  3. Polymers Macromolecules which are made from small molecules, monomers, or co-monomers which structurally repeat themselves. MonomerPolymer Ethylene & PropylenePolyethylene & Polypropylene Styrene Polystyrene Vinyl chloride PVC Co-monomers Nylon (Proteins)

  4. Polyethylene& Polypropylene Polymerization Mechanism

  5. Polystyrene & Others

  6. Nylon A macromolecule which is a poly-amide. -HN(CH2)6-NHCO(CH2)xCO-

  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8 Plastic Waste / Recycling ~300 billion pounds produced annually, Worldwide ~ 5% is recycled

  8. Northern California https://www.norcalcompactors.net/processes-stages-benefits-plastic-recycling/ Stages in Plastic Recycling Sorting Shredding Identification and Classification Extruding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8

  9. http://www.lotfi.net/recycle/plastic.html

  10. http://www.lotfi.net/recycle/plastic.html ONE MILLION plastic bottles are bought EVERY MINUTE around the world — and that number will top half a TRILLION by 2021. Less than half of those bottles end up getting recycled. 8 MILLION METRIC TONS of plastic winds up in our oceans each year.

  11. http://www.lotfi.net/recycle/plastic.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qT-rOXB6NI

  12. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qT-rOXB6NI

  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tG4AYagBz9Q Micro-plastics Bellows Beach, Oahu, Hawaii

  14. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/dead-whale-found-40-kilograms-plastic-its-gutshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/03/dead-whale-found-40-kilograms-plastic-its-guts

  15. Poly- • ester • urethane • ethylene • propylene • styrene • vinyl chloride • vinyl alcohol • amide (Kevlar) • terephthalate • acrylonitrile • imide • phenylene-bisisoxazole

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