Students could be asked to summarise the entire process from crude oil formation to plastics in a flow chart ... plant and learns how glass is made and the raw materials used are described.

Piles of Chinese-made plastics are now an inescapable part of Zimbabwe’s landscape, and corruption is making it impossible to ...

We should give thanks that the Pilgrims didn’t have plastic, I thought recently as I rode a train to Plymouth along England’s south coast. I was on my way to see a man who would help me make ...

Researchers have genetically engineered microbes to produce a strong, flexible plastic similar to nylon for the first time.

Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists today. More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish ...