Avoid high heat: Like wood, plastic cutting boards should not be exposed to high heat. While they are dishwasher-safe, avoid ...

Similarly, once a hard gel is applied to the nail or onto a preshaped plastic extender, it must be cured with a UV light. On ...

Alia Mathias spoke to Kaime Stroot about new nail trends, myths and acrylic vs. gel nails. Let’s break it down: Acrylic nails are made by combining a liquid monomer with a powder polymer ...

There are few more villainous products in the eyes of hardcore environmentalists than plastics.

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

[Fran] shows us how to build a plastic friction welder. It’s a method of connecting plastic pieces. While it’s new to us, apparently this type of tool was given to kids about forty years ago ...

They were washed in with the tide, most likely from China or the US, thousands of miles away -- part of an enormous plastic garbage patch, spinning in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, which you ...

Plastic waste, harmful to the environment, has been increasing continually in Germany in recent years. Packaging generates ...

since they take four times more energy to produce (according to research by the Northern Ireland Assembly on plastic vs. paper bags), although it is true that paper disintegrates much more easily.

MVRDV has revealed its design for Monaco, a six-story office building situated in Munich's transforming Werksviertel neighborhood. This region, previously known for its industrial past and later ...

Plastic is a remarkable material in many ways. Cheap, durable, and versatile, it is responsible for a large percentage of the modern world we live in. As we all know, though, it’s not without ...

Materials firm Trinseo is ending production of polycarbonate resin and combining management of three business units in an ...