We tested 22 bench scrapers made of materials ranging from metal to plastic to wood, focusing on traditional kitchen and baking uses. We used each scraper to divide and lift balls of dough ...

Since the parts might get hot, the plastic is PETG. The trick is that parts need to be conductive in order to use electroplating — typically plastic isn’t conductive. [Clem] paints the plastic ...

About nine million tons of visible plastic trash enter oceans each year—then there’s the waste we can’t see. This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine.

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 ...