Look around you and you’ll struggle to find products that aren’t made with plastic. Since the 1950s, the malleable material has completely reshaped how we live and consume, offering convenience and ...
Plastics are tough and versatile materials, which is great when they’re in use but not so good when they end up in the environment. Scientists at EPFL have now developed a new PET-like plastic ...
This article first appeared in the March/April issue of Inc. Arabia's digital magazine. To read the full magazine, click here. Founded by Amr Shalan and Khaled Raafat in 2021, TileGreen is an Egyptian ...
Recycling plastics may have just gotten as simple as flipping a switch, thanks to scientists from Eindhoven University of Technology. The school reported on the study, recently published in the ...
A new kind of building material is taking shape in a lab at the University of Michigan. The modular, flat black panels panel is the kind of wall-like material that’s used to clad the exterior of ...
Japanese scientists have developed a new type of plastic that’s strong at room temperature, but can be easily broken down on demand into its base components. In seawater, it starts to break down into ...
Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic ...