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Everything You Need to Know About Moldable Plastic: How to Use Thermoplastic Pellets Safely

Moldable plastic is one of those craft supplies that looks spectacularly unexciting in the packet. A handful of little white plastic pellets? Thrilling. Then you put them into hot...

Not all plastics are created equal

 Not all plastics are created equal Ever stared at that little triangle with a number and thought... what does this even mean?Here’s the breakdown of plastics #1-7 and how recyclab...

Scientists created an unusual plastic-like polymer that turns into a gas when heated to about 90°C,…

Scientists created an unusual plastic-like polymer that turns into a gas when heated to about 90°C,...

Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour cookies

Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution are created each year. One option may be to turn the pollution into food, but critics voice concerns

With Oil Hovering at $100 a Barrel, Recycled Plastic is the Affordability Solution Hiding in Plain Sight

Plastic Is Melting Onto Corals

Scientists have found a new form of pollution, one where plastic and pieces of coral become irreversibly intertwined.

Modern miracle? Plastic waste transformed into effective fertilizer

Plastic is one of humanity’s most useful, flexible, and inexpensive inventions. Inexpensive, that is, until you remember the massive environmental and health costs of...

“DURABIO”, a bio-engineering plastic partly made from plant-derived isosorbide, is adopted for ALBION's cosmetic contain...

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Manabu Chikumoto) is pleased to announce that the plant-derived bio-engineering plastic DURABIOв...

Plart: Preserving the Future of Plastic

Looking at Society and the Future Through the Lens of Plastics When I first visited Plart in Naples and met it […]

Glass, or general, waste?

I leave my recycling out for molluscs to clean them - I’m less worried about metal and glass because they get processed at a high temperature, but I like my plastic to be clean. (s...

Scientists at Australia’s Flinders University helped create a plastic-like film from milk protein,…

Scientists at Australia’s Flinders University helped create a plastic-like film from milk protein,...

MIT spinout turns plastic waste into resilient building materials

Atlas Building Composites is commercializing MIT research to turn plastic waste into parts for buildings and other infrastructure.

Plastic fused to coral rubble raises new concerns for ocean pollution

From the seafloor to turtle stomachs, scientists are finding plastic everywhere they look for it. Now, researchers in Japan have found plastic thermally adhered to coral rubble, an...

When plastic companies write the lesson plans

The plastics industry is offering schools curricula that cast plastics as safe, recyclable, and a source of good jobs. Critics say it’s propaganda.

Good Intentions Don't Count; Measured Plastic Does

The plastic pushing people

Fantastic, it ain’t.