What if you want to hang a shelf in a spot where there’s no stud? First, check to see if your wall is made of drywall or plaster by knocking lightly on the wall. If it sounds hollow, it’s drywall.

Polling shows environmental issues are far from the top of voters’ minds this year, and the global plastics crisis rarely gets a mention—unless it’s to defend plastic straws. Nevertheless ...

clothing ever made still exists today. Even for the most conscious consumers, it can be a challenge to identify plastic in our everyday lives and that includes in our wardrobes. The environmental ...

The plastic industry, once hailed for its innovation and convenience, now faces mounting criticism as the environmental toll of its products becomes impossible to ignore. Similarly, the tyre ...

The temptation might arise to use wood glue or common white glues for your project, assuming that standard adhesives will suffice for plastic. Nevertheless, such misapprehensions could be detrimen ...

Since dolphins and humans inhale similar plastic particles, dolphins may be at risk for the same lung problems. As top predators with decades-long life spans, bottlenose dolphins help scientists ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...

Final negotiations for the first-ever United Nations treaty on plastic pollution are due to take place at the end of November. The latest treaty draft states two major objectives: to end plastic ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Here’s an early entry for the 2025 floats pipeline: steel grinding media business Molycop, which was chasing a $1 billion IPO ...