I was on my way to see a man who would help me make sense of the whole mess we’ve made with plastic, especially in the ocean. After sheets of clear plastic trash have been washed in the ...

One team designed sheets of black plastic that folded into ... Harvard University’s Wyss Institute created “shrilk,” a low-cost, clear plastic that’s completely compostable.

Windows can be made by cutting a hole, and gluing or taping a clear plastic sheet to one or both sides. CA glue and most other adhesives work fine on corrugated plastic. The only inconvenience I ...

You see photos of plastic pollution in the ocean, but it can be hard to connect that to the plastic you're buying and using every day. Here are three ways the plastic you throw away can end up in the ...

Facelifts have also grown in popularity in the past few years with patients of younger and younger ages, according to many plastic surgeons, so it’s only natural that non-surgical cosmetic ...

The process, if scaled up, could help bring about a circular economy for many throwaway plastics, with the plastic waste converted back into the monomers used to make polymers, thereby reducing the ...

On April 6, 1938, a group of chemists at DuPont gathered around part of their latest experiment: a plain metal cylinder. It supposedly contained tetrafluoroethylene, a colorless, odorless gas. But ...

The world produces around 250 million tons of plastic waste in municipalities in one year — plastic bottles, cigarette butts, plastic packaging and much more. Much of that waste — equivalent ...

Each one of these environmentally friendly blankets prevents 600 plastic bottles from polluting ... MADE SAFE®, and Greenguard Gold. Organic sheets for better sleep Spa-like sheets from Coop ...

Plastic is a really useful man-made material that has transformed our lives, but what happens after we throw it away is causing a big problem for our planet. Plastic waste can last for hundreds of ...

Plastic Island. Image Courtesy of Emily-Claire ... or partial passage of light through materials, without providing a clear view of the objects behind them. Despite its apparent simplicity ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene tetraphthalate (PET), a polyester, were designed in the 1980s to be recycled this way. But the volume of polyester plastics is minuscule compared ...