Concern over the potential environmental health impacts of phthalates in soft plastic fishing lures among recreational anglers could create consumer demand for more informative labels or different ...

An interdisciplinary research team has demonstrated in their new study that harmful phthalates and endocrine disruptors are ...

“Soft plastics” that can’t be recycled at home are difficult to avoid. Thankfully, one entrepreneur revealed what to do instead of throwing those plastics in the trash. How do you know ...

A mold is put into direct, prolonged contact with a hot sheet of semi-molten plastic. If one needs a mold to work more than once, there are a few considerations to take into account. The good news ...

Whether you’re on the beach or the boat, don’t start the fall striped bass run without these three metal lures.

Plastics News' Sarah Kominek writes about a new study published recently that checks for the potential for phthalates to leach from soft fishing lures, typically made of PVC. "Per day ...

Tesco and Sainsbury's have been accused of misleading customers over their front-of-store recycling schemes after an investigation found that most soft plastic returned to stores was burned.

Trying to narrow down hundreds of striped bass lures to the ... buddy Rob Koch that plastic BottleDarters started being produced. It was Koch who helped created the mold that set the mass ...

An investigation into the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has led to calls for Sainsbury’s and Tesco to publicly support the Global ...

Following today’s release of a report on the recycling of soft plastics by Everyday Plastic and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), members of the industry have commented. The investigation ...

[Matthew] points out that fabricating soft robots has traditionally been a time-consuming and difficult task. He’s trying to make it easier by 3D printing molds into which soft robots can be cast.

The researchers believe that their soft material could give rise to new types of ultralight ... new material is replacing this lipid tail with tiny molecular fragments of a plastic, called ...