PP may help keep paper from clogging up landfills.(polypropylene-infused cardboard may have uses)(Brief Article) From: Plastics News | Date: May 20, 2002| Author: Bregar, Bill | COPYRIGHT 2002 Crain Communications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Someday, the headliner on your car could be made from old cardboard boxes infused with a little polypropylene, then thermoformed, according to a presentation at Antec 2002 in San Francisco.

More research is needed - test samples were too dry to draw well under pressure forming - but the technology could be a way to consume landfill-clogging paperboard, said Tom Mase, director of Michigan State University's advanced materials engineering experiment station.

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