Plastic recycling is made easier by special codes put into the plastic item at the point of manufacture. The plastic recycling codes, types of plastic and the applications of recycled plastic are ...

Many detergent sheets and the plastic film from detergent pods include polyvinyl alcohol, or PVA, a synthetic polymer that is water-soluble and can be biodegradable.

Multi-layer plastic isn’t taken by curbside recycling programs because it’s difficult to separate, sort and recycle because it’s made of different plastic types fused together.

In this work, we have constructed a large-area sheet-type wireless power-transmission system on a plastic film by combining state-of-the-art printing and plastic microelectromechanical-system ...

A new study assesses a low-cost intervention aimed at reducing deaths from bleeding during childbirth. It's remarkably simple — and, according to a new study, quite effective.