Existing electroactive materials are hard, rigid, and often made from non-sustainable, toxic substances, making them impractical for use in soft, flexible electronics, wearable technology, and ...

Have you ever found yourself wondering what to do with plastic packaging film, bubble wrap, plastic shopping bags, and other soft plastics that can’t be recycled in the blue bins at home? A new pilot ...

Anya Phelan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Swee-Hoon Chuah is a Board Member of Brand Tasmania (Department of Premier and Cabinet, Tasmania) and sits on the Academic Advisory Panel of the Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government ...

After the collapse of soft plastic recycling program REDcycle nearly three years ago, it's been almost impossible for individuals to recycle soft plastics in Australia. But supermarkets and councils ...

A new large-scale soft plastics recycling facility will be able to prepare waste plastic packaging to be turned back into rigid plastics or food grade soft plastics. It has capacity to process nearly ...

It's the city of Orlando's 150th birthday, and residents celebrated by donating over 1,000 pounds of soft plastics. Now, the city plans on using that accumulation to build a bench commemorating the ...

Using peptides and a snippet of the large molecules in plastics, materials scientists have developed materials made of tiny, flexible nano-sized ribbons that can be charged just like a battery to ...

New biodegradable structures could improve energy, information technologies and help to advance medicine. This is in the form of soft, sustainable electroactive materials. This follows Northwestern ...