For decades, the lemon-lime drink has come in green bottles — but clear plastic is more easily recycled, the company says. Environmentalists say the issue is not the color but the single-use ...

On a morning in Wako, a small city just outside Tokyo, Takuzo Aida held up a thin piece of clear plastic ... ionic monomers—the plastic gains its strength from salt bridges, electrostatic bonds that ...

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Beats, which is owned by Apple, released Studio Buds+ in a transparent cloudy plastic material a few weeks ago. With the press that this product got, it’s fair to say, most tech enthusiasts are ...

The material can’t yet reach the toughness of a plastic bag, for example, nor the elasticity of a rubber band. “We’re not quite there in those yet, but we’re pretty close,” Mr. Boynton said.

Meat trays were given a new look, swapping clear plastic for black in a push to streamline recycling in the country after it was discovered the black plastic wasn't picked up by sorting machines.