Polymer Zone Useful Links

	National Stem Centre E Library Excellent resource for downloadable educational publications including many on polymer such as the excellent 'Fantactic Plastic' booklet which features a series of activity sheets. Please note: All publications are free to download but in the case of some publications you will need to register in order to download the files..

	Royal Society of Chemistry: Learn Chemistry Zone Over four hundred exciting practical experiments that demonstrate chemical concepts and processes including many on polymers. The site includes the popular co-produced Nuffield Foundation and Royal Society of Chemistry ‘Practical chemistry’ series. All content has been audited for health and safety in partnership with CLEAPSS.

	Cool Seas Investigators (CSI): Litter Challenge. This is a problem-based learning project which will give students the opportunity to vnvestigate the issue of litter through a hands on litter survey. Work together to design a litter campaign for including sharable digital content such as a video, image or animatio

	Plastics Packaging FactsCreated by the The American Chemistry Council this site looked to answer a very simple question, Why Plastic Packaging? Follow on Twitter

	Plastics Makes it Possible Plastics Make it Possible® highlights the many ways plastics inspire innovations that improve our lives, solve big problems and help us design a safer, more promising future. This initiative is sponsored by America’s Plastics Makers™ through the American Chemistry Council. Follow on Twitter

	Bottle2Bottle Plastic milk bottles are made from HDPE and this website tells you all about HDPE and HDPE milk bottles and how they are changing.

	Let's Talk Plastics plastic milk bottles are made from HDPE and this website tells you all about HDPE and HDPE milk bottles and how they are changing

	Plastic Foodservice Facts A rich source for all sorts of info on the plastic foodservice packaging that we use every day

	Pledge 4 Plastics is the national initiative that aims to boost plastic recycling in the UK

	Museaum of Design in Plastics MoDiP houses three distinct collections: the MoDiP collection, consisting of predominantly 20th and 21st century mass-produced artefacts; the Plastics Historical Society collection, which includes examples of the very-first man-made plastics; and the Worshipful Company of Horners collection of artefacts made from horn, a natural plastic. Together they amount to more than 12,500 artefacts and provide a comprehensive history of the use of natural and synthetic plastics in design.