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An Austrian named Werner Boote has started a campaign against dangerous chemicals existing in plastic. In order to complete his documentary film “Plastic planet” he had to travel all over the world and meet many people.

The public is invited to generate ideas on collecting and reusing plastic waste for profit in advance of the Rio+20 summit.

Plastic is getting a huge boost thanks to a team of European researchers that has found a new way to develop this material. An innovative 'recipe book' will help experts create the 'perfect plastic' with specific uses and properties

A tiny strip of plastic uses electrical impulses to manipulate air and fly. That's right — this could be the prototype for an actual magic carpet. Well, perhaps it would be more like magic linoleum.

Lightning Trigger: A Lichtenberg figure being created by a tap from a nail. In just a few hundred nanoseconds, electrons trapped in plastic exit suddenly as a bright, branching spark.

We live in the Age of Plastic. It's cheap and practical, and it's everywhere - even in our blood. But is it a danger to us?

Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and the environment.

Waste polyethylene from shopping bags and other sources can easily be converted into carbon nanotubes suitable for use in batteries.

A garbage patch in the Pacific is one of five that may be caught in giant gyres scattered in the world’s oceans.

Organic LEDs, or OLEDs, promise to bring flexible, transparent displays to the market, but some researchers have found a way to get the same effect by printing microscopic inorganic LEDs onto plastic and glass.