While an incredibly useful resource for humans, plastic has become a blight on our ecosystems and planet. Due to its ...

Eco-friendly plastic developed in Japan dissolves in seawater within hours, leaving no trace, non-toxic, and non-flammable.

Researchers created a new resin that simultaneously creates solid objects and dissolvable structural supports depending on what type of light the resin is exposed to.

When these two compounds are mixed together in water, they form a viscous material that can be dried to form plastics. A reaction between the two ingredients forms “salt bridges” between the ...

Australian researchers have begun looking into the possibility of dissolvable plastic, in an effort to ... The team has created a prototype of the material and will begin testing it in ocean ...

British company Aquapak is offering a solution — literally. Its Hydropol polymer material is a plastic that can fully dissolve in water. “It’s like sugar in tea,” CEO Mark Lapping tells me.

Many dissolvable beauty products use polyvinyl alcohol, or PVA, a material that has become controversial because it’s a synthetic polymer derived from plastic, whose biodegradability depends on ...

Dissolvable materials like PVA are used as support structures ... They note in their paper that “recycling 3D printed plastics is a key way to reduce their environmental impacts. Life-cycle assessment ...

A team of researchers at the University of Reading created an easily dissolvable adhesive that ... to ensure the quality of the recycled material. When plastic is recycled, it is melted down ...

This new method detailed by Kings College scientists converts them into a dissolvable material in just one day, the study reported. When the plastics are kept at a high temperature for a further ...