There is immense promise in it. It is rechargeable, non toxic and flexible. It is the new plastic battery

to broadbase the use of plastics in an eco-friendly manner, the ministry of environment and forests ( m o ef ) has cons

Wood can now be produced from waste. The UK's Save Wood Products Limited has come up with a product called durawood that combines the properties of wood and plastic. Derived from recycled polystyrene

German researchers have hit upon a novel technique that converts waste plastics into multiple gains for steel industry

Wood which is aesthetically pleasing and exceptionally resistant can now be made out of recycled polystyrene

A high-molecular silicon plastic that can withstand temperatures ranging between 400-500

The process of cryo-recycling of plastic wastes has recently been developed by Harry Rosin, director of the Hygiene Institute in Dort- round, Germany. The method uses freezing rather than

A K NANDA, a young scientist from Berhampur in Orissa, has developed a commercially viable process for production of bio-degradable plastic sheets and films using starch. The polythene films

To prevent a recurrence of the devastating fire 1hat broke out in west Delhi on June 6 last year, the Delhi High Court said in a recent ruling that the ban on trade in poly vinyl chloride

'Plastic electronics', which behave like semiconductors, could become cheap, flexible alternatives to silicon-based electronics for certain products, according to Dutch scientists. These substitute