3D printing is all well and good if you want one of something, but if you want lots of plastic parts that are all largely identical, you should consider injection molding. You can pay someone to ...

The machine itself has three major parts; the hopper, the screw, and the mold. The hopper is where the plastic pellets are dumped in. These pellets are tiny flecks of plastic, and if the product ...

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A big attempt by the plastics industry to offer its own recycling and pollution legislation in Congress as an alternative to the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act continues to be a slow climb.

Join us for the premiere of Life of a Pellet (@lifeofapellet), a stop motion short film exploring pre-production plastic pellet pollution. Made entirely of plastic trash and real plastic pellets ...

Specifically, volunteers were cleaning up plastic pellets, a kind of microplastic found in Galveston Bay. These tiny little ...

But they're not. The nurdles are plastic pellets found in many plastic products. We spotted them all along these train tracks on El Camino Real. "It's very emotional. Once you see one, you see all ...

The Galicia region is worst hit so far but the pellets have spread to Asturias too Communities along the coast of northern Spain fear an environmental disaster as millions of tiny plastic pellets ...

Millions of tiny plastic pellets are washing up on the shores of northern Spain prompting local authorities to declare an environmental emergency on Tuesday. Officials believe the plastic comes ...

the giant robots of Gundam. Four decades after the sci-fi anime series "Mobile Suit Gundam" debuted on Japanese television, plastic models lifted from the saga are as popular as ever. Toymaker ...

Oak sometimes gets a bad rap because it's a cheaper hardwood than fruitwood or other hardwoods like hickory, and it's sometimes used as a filler in manufacturing pellets to keep costs down.

He said that instead of traditional pellet guns, they're seeing an increase in Airsoft guns, which shoot a rubber or plastic pellet. "They're difficult to tell in appearance from real guns." ...