Soleno’s 45,000-square foot production plant is already pumping out large diameter plastic pipes — giant machinery is slowly molding a set of pipes more than 10-feet in diameter. Soleno has ...

Taking home top honours was NowaTech's PVC decking planks, made from recycled PVC pipes and bottles (primarily honey and bubble bath bottles), which won Gold in the Building and Construction category.

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Gary Wentz, an editor for Family Handyman, will show you how to glue PVC pipes to get a fast, leak-free seal. Make an ...

It’s unclear which material the new pipes will be made of. Replacing pipes with plastic could cause other issues, Rumpler said, since the long-term risks of using PVC (a type of plastic ...

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 ...

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While a common family of bacteria, Comamonadaceae, grow on plastics in urban rivers and wastewater systems, it was unclear how these bacteria interact with and break down plastic. Professor Ludmilla ...

Single-use plastic has always been a concern of Caitlin Broadbent, a sustainability technician at King’s College London. Each month, researchers in the institute’s Drosophila fly facilities ...

Some of the worst offenders, which can take decades to degrade in landfills, are polypropylene—which is used for things such as food packaging and bumpers—and polyethylene, found in plastic ...

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An curved arrow pointing right. What do we get wrong when we talk about ocean plastic? A lot, it turns out. Business Insider producer Elizabeth McCauley dives into the scientific literature and ...