By Unsie Zuege    Thanks to the efforts of a 13-year-old Chanhassen girl, the non-recyclable yogurt containers at St. John the Baptist Catholic School in Excelsior were repurposed and converted ...

Do you cross the street to put your soda can in the recycling bin or avidly pluck plastics and paper from your neighbor’s trash cans? The current state of recycling in the United States may ...

Instead of throwing away those plastic bags from the grocery store, discover how to turn them into both decorative and useful ...

Most modern cars have plastic bumpers which bend if you bump something, and usually rebound to their original shape, with no harm done except a scuff on the surface paint. If the bump is enough ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of creating a unique vase using liquid plastic, shaped to resemble the contours of the human body. Watch as I carefully mold and sculpt the material into a ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

Those thuds and bangs folks awake to happen because wood, vinyl siding, plastic and other ... “Buildings will sort of creak or maybe pop as a readjustment of shape takes place,” Schmidlin ...

One would look like a grain of rice — a shape that didn ... choose to regulate the plastic pellets. "It's really shortsighted the state doesn't provide any sort of protections or requirements ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

easier to shape and harden into durable thermoset products. The scientists upcycled plastic waste by employing two processes in tandem. Both are types of metathesis, which means a change of places.