Rhoda Miel

Assistant Managing Editor at Plastics News

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Engaging with employees | Hyperbole or realistic? | Carbon fiber cleared in Europe | Plastics News

1 week ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Plastics News isn't alone in celebrating best places to work. USA Today recently unveiled its top U.S. workplaces, and while white-collar employers dominate the top of the rankings, plastic processors and suppliers also make an appearance.
Kickstart: Robots, technology, plastics and music

1 week ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Robots, technology, plastics and music The band OK Go may be best known for its quirky videos featuring long takes and complex choreography with treadmills or Rube Goldberg machines or marching bands. It also may be the band mostly likely to integrate plastics into its videos. OK Go's newest song, "Love," has a kaleidoscope theme and features 29 industrial robots from Kuka Robotics, mirrors, pool noodles and other props.
Kickstart: Remember the golden rule when it comes to your workers

1 week ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Remember the golden rule when it comes to your workers There's no big secret to becoming a preferred workplace. Or rather, the secret may be the very simple golden rule of treating your workers the way you'd like to be treated, and doing that consistently.
Kickstart: You'll need more than Monopoly money for your next game night

2 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

You'll need more than Monopoly money for your next game night Tariffs may ruin your next game night. That's right, there's no escaping trade war news even when you shut down your computer and silence your phone. I'm as sorry about that as you are.
Kickstart: Major League Pickleball, presented by composites

2 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Major League Pickleball, presented by composites Toray Industries Inc. sees an opportunity to grow with pickleball, becoming the first materials company and first Asia-based platinum-level sponsor of Major League Pickleball. That means Toray branding will appear on courts, marketing material and apparel during games at professional, coed and team league events.
Tariffs expected to add to hospital bills| Catching up with leaders in recycling

2 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Tariffs expected to add to hospital bills Some hospitals monitoring tariffs from President Donald Trump are raising concerns about supply shortages and higher costs for medical devices, personal protective equipment, surgical tools and testing equipment. Providence, a nonprofit health care network in the western U.S. with 51 hospitals, says it expects its costs to rise by as much as $25 million per year from the initial set of tariffs, our sister paper Modern Healthcare reports.
Kickstart: Ring Pops are back in business

2 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Ring Pops are back in business The Ring Pop, a hard candy mounted on a plastic ring, has returned to production in Pennsylvania. Bazooka Candy Brands announced April 4 it has started manufacturing at a new 120,000-square-foot, 100-employee plant in Moosic, Pa., capable of making 1.5 million ring pops a day.
Kickstart: Penguins, paperwork errors and plastics

2 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Penguins, paperwork errors and plastics One of the … quirks … of the tariff announcements from the White House on April 2 were levies placed on locations that do no direct trading with the U.S. For that matter, the Australian territories of Heard Island and McDonald Islands near Antarctica have no human inhabitants. So why would penguins and seals have a 10 percent tariff placed on them?
Kickstart: Keeping count of plastics and fish

3 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

Keeping count of plastics and fish There's a statistic related to ocean plastics that shows up in regular discussions about pollution: By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. The number comes from a mainstream source, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which released that pearl of wisdom in 2016. But the fact-checking website Snopes is now questioning the validity of that statement.
Kickstart: Tariffs hit a sour note

3 weeks ago | plasticsnews.com | Rhoda Miel

It's going to take some time to figure out the effects of new tariffs on individual companies. But conditions will likely be confusing and frustrating as we figure those out. For instance, on the eve of President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" announcements on April 2, the operators of a very unique business in Ottawa, Ontario, still didn't know what tariffs will mean for them, even though there is no U.S. manufacturer they compete with.

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1 Nov 24

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11 Jul 24

The plastics industry has lost a titan. https://t.co/82bDeCagJD https://t.co/D7Qo6rn1mT

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6 Jun 24

Today in Kickstart: D-Day and an early flexible plastic. https://t.co/gXFGMI4dsX