A breakthrough method for chemically recycling acrylic—one of the world's most widely used plastics—has been developed by ...

The acrylic sheet, universally known by brand names like Plexiglas or Perspex, is a material that has radically redefined what is possible in design, fabrication, and architecture. As a transparent ...

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What springs to mind when you're asked to think of plastic chairs? Do you picture the ubiquitous lightweight, stackable polypropylene chair sold cheaply in hardware stores worldwide? Or perhaps you ...

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The Karnataka Food Safety Department has found that 52 out of 251 hotels use plastic sheets to prepare idlis. The state health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao warned that "plastic is carcinogenic. Those ...