The SciPinion Center for Plastics Safety
Advancing collective wisdom through collaborative expertise and objective peer review across the entire plastic lifecycle. Through our peer review process, we establish scientific consensus on complex plastics challenges—from production and innovation to environmental safety and circularity.
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Focus Areas
The Plastics Center of Excellence works in plastics science, technology, and recycling across the following topics:
SciPinion Panel Findings
Independent expert panels delivering objective scientific reviews on critical plastics and polymer safety questions.
SciPinion Expert Panel Reinforces PVA in Laundry Products is Readily Biodegradable
A SciPinion panel identified substantial methodological flaws with a publication that proposed that water-soluble film composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA or PVOH) used in unit-dose laundry products (laundry pods or capsules) is not completely degraded in wastewater treatment plants. Read more here.
SciPinion Advisory Panel Report – Best Practices for Exposure Model Peer Review
A SciPinion panel created a process for determining the breadth and depth of peer review of exposure models, developed with input from a panel of exposure-modeling experts. This included consideration of the tiers and types of models (e.g., screening, deterministic, probabilistic, etc.). Read more here.
SciPinion Expert Panel Finds Significant Flaws in Publication on Polymer Biodegradation and Emissions
SciPinion conducted an independent review of a publication proposing that water-soluble film composed of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA or PVOH) used in unit-dose laundry products (laundry pods or capsules) is not completely degraded in wastewater treatment plants. The expert panel identified substantial methodological flaws in the original publication. Read more here.