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Eco Factor: New class of plastic materials can help produce more efficient thin-film solar cells. Rhett Smith, a Clemson chemistry assistant professor, has been funded by the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to peruse his research...

Eco Factor: Recyclable plastic for electronic components. We all know that recycling thermoplastic or the plastic used in water bottles and polyethylene bags is easy. However, recycling chips and circuit boards commonly used in electronic...

Eco Factor: Structures created from recycled plastic bottles encourage youth to kick single use plastic water bottles. Drinking bottled water might keep you in good shape, but the millions of water bottles discarded every day in landfills are...

Eco factor: Greenhouse made out of recycled plastic bottles. Plastic products have become one of the biggest hazards to the environment today. Throwing plastic waste into the trash after using it is what we do to get rid of it. But how about...

Eco Factor: Suspension lamp made from old plastic utensils. Luis Luna has created a stunning suspension lamp made by weaving old plastic spoons and forks into a web. Dubbed “Gluttony,” the suspension lamp gives a plastic disco-ball effect when.

Eco Factor: Water bottles made from recycled materials. Statistics show that 60 million plastic bottles are thrown away daily in the United States, 86% out of them become garbage and hence a threat to the planet. While convincing people not to use.

Eco Factor: An open-roofed greenhouse that is crafted completely out of discarded plastic bottles. Plastic bottles are probably the most abundantly found examples of ill-disposed trash, and with the growing consumption of these bottles across...

Going green is no longer a trend or a little change for the sake of the planet alone. Eco-friendly living is a way of life that is catching on fast across the planet, and both designers and architects are making note of this very essential fact....

EcoFactor: Instead of depending on crude oil and natural gas to obtain the monomers for plastics, they could be synthesized by bacteria. Scientists at San Diego-based sustainable chemical company Genomatica Inc. have made an interesting discovery..

Cleaning up the planet from plastic litter is one of the hardest things to do. Plastic is considered a serious environmental problem as it is one of the most widely used materials in every industry, and it comes in plenty of forms and shapes which are..