Plastic conveyor chains offer several advantages over their stainless steel counterparts, including lower weight — which in turn lowers power consumption — and zero maintenance.

So Kayne and his team started experimenting with other materials, eventually coming up with a metal-coated plastic mail that weighed considerably less than traditional mail.

Mark Kinsler has been working on organizing his workspace which included hanging chains from the ceiling to organize ...

Chain link fences may keep people and animals out of your yard, but they don't provide much privacy. This affordable solution will solve that problem.

Harbor Logistics of North Charleston and Moncks Corner-based nurdle handler A&R Bulk-Pak announced they merged under a ...

Debris blankets the north side of one of the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean. Researchers found a huge amount of plastic both onshore and buried in the sand.

The footage shows one way that waste plastic could be entering the marine and global food chain. An estimated 150 million tonnes of plastic "disappears" from the world's waste stream each year.

The accumulation of micro- and nano-plastics in marine organisms, particularly fish, eventually makes its way onto our plates. What are the health risks?

The next time you order an iced coffee from Starbucks, it might not look that different — but there’s been a major change. The chain announced Thursday that the plastic cups for all sizes of ...

Accor Hotels is the latest global hotel chain to eliminate travel-sized toiletries from its rooms.

The grocery store chain says it became the first major U.S. retailer to eliminate plastic shopping bags from its stores by the end of 2023, Aldi said in a statement released Jan. 10.

Watch the moment plastic enters the food chain A scientist has filmed the moment plastic microfibre is ingested by plankton, illustrating how the material is affecting life beneath the waves.