| Reference in text | Source – name | Source – details | Source – link | Retrieved on |
| Mayans used latex rubber | A good many years before Goodyear… | MIT News – May 2010 | http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2010/mayaball-0524 | 12/20/2015 |
| Worshipful Company of Horners quote | The Craft of the Horner | The Horners’ Company – undated | http://www.horners.org.uk/cms.php?cms_id=47 | 20/12/2015 |
| Rubber timeline inc MacIntosh, Hancock, Hayward and Goodyear | Timeline | BouncingBalls – undated | http://www.bouncing-balls.com/timeline/timeline3.htm | 20/12/2015 |
| Hancock beat Goodyear by a month | Thomas Hancock developed Vulcanite | Plastics Historical Society – undated | http://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14212 | 20/12/2015 |
| Goodyear and the Goodyear tyre company | The Charles Goodyear Story The Strange Story of Rubber | Commercial website | http://www.goodyear.com/corporate/history/history_story.html | 20/12/2015 |
| Alexander Parkes | Alexander Parkes – Materials Man and Polymath | The Science Museum [blog] – Dec 2013 | http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/2013/12/29/alexander-parkes-materials-man-and-polymath/ | 20/12/2015 |
| John Hyatt and court case | Late 19th Century Inventions: Plastic | Polymer Search – undated | http://www.polymer-search.com/inventionplastic.html | 20/12/2015 |
| Goodyear’s rubber football | Charles Goodyear’s Soccer Ball | Soccerballworld – undated | http://www.soccerballworld.com/Oldestball.htm | 20/12/2015 |
| Gustave Bouchardat | Science, Sense & Nonsense | Joe Schwarcz, Random House LLC, 3 Nov 2009 | http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VI9QeNuCEncC&pg=PA177&lpg=PA177&dq=Gustave+Bouchardat&source=bl&ots=ZKMhPy-gYu&sig=Dx3W2OMQ4oKj-ghrTweH-yFtyyY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RLCUUrWIMpSrhAeJh4DADQ&ved=0CGsQ6AEwDw#v=onepage&q=Gustave%20Bouchardat&f=false | 20/12/2015 |
| Two-thirds of all rubber is synthetic | American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks. U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program | American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks. U.S. Synthetic Rubber Program – undated | http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/syntheticrubber.html | 20/12/2015 |
| The quality of natural rubber means it will always be in demand | Why We (Still) Can’t Live Without Rubber | National Geographic – Jan 2016 | http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/rubber-boom-text# | 2/2/2016 |
| Wilhelm Krische and galagith | GALALITH’S HISTORY | galalith.eu – undated | http://www.galalith.eu/histoire%20A.htm | 20/12/2015 |
| Bakelite | Leo Baekeland and the Invention of Bakelite | American Chemical Society National Historic Chemical Landmarks. Bakelite: The World’s First Synthetic Plastic. http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/bakelite.html (accessed March 20, 20015). | https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/bakelite.html#invention-of-bakelite | 20/12/2015 |
| Making bakelite | Making Bakelite – Periodic Table of Videos | Periodic Videos, University of Nottingham – Aug 2014 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlh0YDRmZ0I | 20/12/2015 |
| Making bakelite | How to Make Bakelite Plastic | eHowto – undated | http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7496181_make-bakelite-plastic.html | 20/12/2015 |
| Condensation and addition methods | How Plastics Work | HowStuffWorks – undated | http://science.howstuffworks.com/plastic3.htm | 20/12/2015 |
| recyclable thermoset | Recyclable, Strong Thermosets and Organogels via Paraformaldehyde Condensation with Diamines | García, Jones, Virwani, McCloskey, Boday, ter Huurne, Horn, Coady, Bintaleb, Alabdulrahman, Alsewailem, Almegren, Hedrick Science 16 May 2014: Vol. 344 no. 6185 pp. 732-735 | http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6185/732 | 2/8/2016 |
| Plasticisers and BPA | Plasticisers (phthalates) and bisphenol A (BPA) | Baby Centre – Oct 2014 | http://www.babycentre.co.uk/a1037227/plasticisers-phthalates-and-bisphenol-a-bpa | 20/12/2015 |
| $29.3 billion in 2014 (all industries) | Global industrial fillers market predicted to grow at CAGR of 4.2% to 2019 | Additives for polymers volume 2015 issue 10 – Oct 2015 | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306374715301433 | 2/8/2016 |
| 21 plastic forming methods | Plastics Processes | Plastipedia – undated | http://www.bpf.co.uk/Plastipedia/Processes/Default.aspx | 20/12/2015 |
| Nathaniel Wyeth patent | Nathaniel Wyeth; Invented Plastic Soda Bottle | Latimes (obituary) – Jul 1990 | http://articles.latimes.com/1990-07-09/news/mn-218_1_plastic-soda-bottle | 20/12/2015 |
| Hyatt and injection moulding | Plastic Injection Molding: Manufacturing Startup and Management | Douglas M. Bryce, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 1 Jan 1999 | https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Wg884_ggbmEC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Hyatt+and+injection+moulding&source=bl&ots=2Id5N5ew2s&sig=J6G2-6MV_4T7an0lxqhR9QB7_xw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4yUMVa2UKqyy7Qbw4ICwDg&ved=0CFoQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Hyatt%20and%20injection%20moulding&f=false | 20/12/2015 |
| The New York London myth | Where Does the Name Nylon Originate? | Timelessmyths – Apr 2014 | http://www.timelessmyths.co.uk/where-does-name-nylon-originate.html | 20/12/2015 |
| Han van Meegeren | The Procuress: Fake or Mistake? Painting Featured in the Third Episode of BBC One’s Fake or Fortune | Artdaily – undated | http://artdaily.com/news/48886/The-Procuress–Fake-or-Mistake–Painting-Featured-in-the-Third-Episode-of-BBC-One-s-Fake-or-Fortune#.VnbggVkbM3g | 20/12/2015 |
| Oil for plastics (4% or 83,353 swimming pools) [scolling required] | “How Much Oil is Needed for Plastics?” | British Plastics Federation – undated | http://www.bpf.co.uk/Press/Oil_Consumption.aspx | 2/8/2016 |
| Global oil production 2014 | EIA international statistics | EIA data base – retrieved Nov 2015 | https://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=3&pid=26&aid=2 | 2/8/2016 |
| Convert barrels into litres | US Barrels (Oil) to Liters | metric-conversions.com | http://www.metric-conversions.org/volume/us-oil-barrels-to-liters.htm | 20/12/2015 |
| Litres of water in an olympic swimming pool | When dam size matters | Austrailian Bureau of Metrology – Oct 2012 | http://media.bom.gov.au/social/blog/39/when-dam-size-matters/ | 20/12/2015 |
| Bioplastics production growth | Market [Bioplastics] | europeanbioplastics – undated | http://en.european-bioplastics.org/market/ | 2/8/2016 |
| Plastics from orange peel | Orange is the new black gold: how peel could replace crude oil in plastics | the conversation – Sept 2015 | https://theconversation.com/orange-is-the-new-black-gold-how-peel-could-replace-crude-oil-in-plastics-47121 | 2/2/2016 |
| Plastics from mushrooms | Are mushrooms the new plastic? | TEDGlobal – Jul 2010 | http://www.ted.com/talks/eben_bayer_are_mushrooms_the_new_plastic | 14/2/2016 |
| plastics from sulphur | Plastics of the future may be made from sulfur, not oil, putting waste to good use | the conversation – Jan 2016 | https://theconversation.com/plastics-of-the-future-may-be-made-from-sulfur-not-oil-putting-waste-to-good-use-48425 | 2/2/2016 |
| Lego | Lego To Replace Oil-Based Plastics | Chemical and Engineering News, Volume 93 Issue 26, Jun 2015 | http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/i26/Lego-Replace-Oil-Based-Plastics.html | 20/12/2015 |
| Plastics from CO2 | Process technology to convert CO2 to major chemicals | Commercial website | http://llchemical.com/ | 20/12/2015 |
| Chris Jeavans | It’s a wrap [Chris Jeavans] | BBCmagazine – Sep 2008 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7591751.stm | 20/12/2015 |
| Reduce the weight of bottles and films [scrolling required] | Plastics: Recycling and Sustainability | BPF – undated | http://www.bpf.co.uk/Sustainability/Plastics_and_Sustainability.aspx | 20/12/2015 |
| Why we don’t recycle polystyrene | Styrofoam and recycling explained in less than 4 minutes! | grist – May 2015 | http://grist.org/science/styrofoam-and-recycling-explained-in-less-than-4-minutes/ | 20/12/2015 |
| NYC banned EPS food containers and packaging peanuts | NYC Bans Expanded Polystyrene Food Containers, Opens Market to Alternatives | Scientific American – Jan 2015 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nyc-bans-expanded-polystyrene-food-containers-opens-market-to-alternatives/ | 20/12/2015 |
| MacDonalds stopped using EPS for the big mac | Big Mac Trashes Plastic Burger Box | NewsOk – Nov 1990 | http://newsok.com/big-mac-trashes-plastic-burger-box/article/2336459 | 20/12/2015 |
| Disappeared refilling project | In-store Dispensing Systems (ISDS) retail trials | Wrap – Dec 2010 | http://www.wrap.org.uk/sites/files/wrap/WRAP01%20180%20RSC005-001-11-1-10%20(2).pdf | 12/20/2015 |
| Recycling failing to meet demand for recycled PET | PET is the Most Widely Recycled Plastic in the World | Napcor – undated | http://www.napcor.com/PET/landing_petrecycling.html | 12/2/2015 |
| Only 20% of local authorities collect plastic film for recycling | PlasRecycle on BBC Radio 4, Today programme | PlasRecycle [Press Release] – October 2015 | http://plasrecycle.com/2015/10/05/plasrecycle-on-bbc-radio-4-today-programme/ | 12/20/2015 |
| Environment minister and WRAP declare intention to standardise recycling | Stewart bids to end ‘madness’ around recycling regimes | let’srecycle – Oct 2015 | http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/stewart-bids-to-end-madness-around-recycling-regimes/ | 12/20/2015 |
| Near Infra Red Spectropscopy | Good practice of Near Infrared sorting of plastic packaging | Wrap – Oct 2010 | http://www2.wrap.org.uk/downloads/NIR_Technical_Report_Final.2af3cdf0.9909.pdf | 12/20/2015 |
| Active disassembly | Active Disassembly using Smart Materials | activedisassembly.com – undated | http://www.activedisassembly.com/ | 12/20/2015 |
| Plastics are 7% of UK manufacturing | About The British Plastics Industry | BPF – undated | http://www.bpf.co.uk/Industry/Default.aspx | 12/2/2015 |
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Michelle Spaul 