He wants plastic to be more than trash, but it’s hard to bend high-density polyethylene to one’s will. The two tricks, Mergler discovered, are heat and patience.

To know why plastic is bad for the environment, you have to understand the complex process of how plastic is made.

Today, the world we live in is full of things made of plastic. How did that happen and what does it mean to live in a synthetic world?

Unlike other plastic forming processes, vacuum forming uses heat and a vacuum to form plastic over simple pattern molds.

The mammoth flat-screen descendants of RCA Victor’s 21-inch color TV are made of plastic. Toothpaste isn’t just sequestered in plastic tubes—until very recently, it was plastic.

Eight million tons of plastic end up in our oceans every year. What it's done to this island is a stark warning.

First, the mixed recyclables are shredded and crushed into smaller fragments, enabling more effective separation. The mixed fragments pass over rotating screens that remove cardboard and paper, ...

A team of chemists has discovered how to transform PET plastic waste into BAETA, a material that captures CO2 with remarkable ...