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Plastics

The Plastics Historical Society

The Worshipful Company of Horners

Museum of Design in Plastics MoDiP 

THE POPART PROJECT - Preservation Of Plastic ARTefacts in museum collections

COMPLEX project @ UCL

NANORESTART project

 

Some useful and interesting web resources: 

http://www.shcg.org.uk/domains/shcg.org.uk/local/media/downloads/Plastic...

https://www.recycledplastic.com/index.html%3Fp=10331.html

http://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14296

https://www.modip.ac.uk/

https://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/conserveogram/08-04.pdf

https://www.twi-global.com/technical-knowledge/faqs/faq-how-using-simple...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3179527.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A3837ae...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin_identification_code

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/are-bioplastics-m...

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191030-why-biodegradables-wont-solv...

 

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