The Plastic Icons Hiding in Your Attic That Museums Actually Want

Plastic rarely feels like history. It’s the material of lunchboxes, toys, telephones, and kitchen containers that people ...
CNBC

This startup turns trash into designer objects — which have been featured in Vogue

Entrepreneur Charlie Rudkin-Wilson recycles household plastic into homewares that have featured in Vogue. Rudkin-Wilson wants to "change the perception of plastic waste and to make it seem like a ...
Futurism

Researchers Scoop “Mysterious” Plastic Objects Out of Great Pacific Garbage Patch

A crew on board a ship belonging to the nonprofit Ocean Voyages Institute made an unusual discovery while cleaning trash out of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — the largest accumulation of ocean ...
KTLA

Rocks, insects, plastic: Why are ‘foreign objects’ common in food recalls?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Rocks in Trader Joe’s cookies. Insects in ...
ExtremeTech

3D-Printed Plastic Objects Send Data Over Wi-Fi Without Any Electronics

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Chicago Sun-Times

How rocks, insects, plastic, other foreign objects end up in our food

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