Melt filter. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has awarded a patent to Nordson Corp., Westlake, Ohio, for a self-cleaning filter that removes dirt, metal and other contaminants from plastic scrap ...

On a trip to India as a design student, Dutch product designer Olivier de Gruijter noticed the ubiquity of jerricans (sometimes called jerry cans), plastic or metal containers used to lug water from ...

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Tiny plastic particles are polluting our oceans, where they can stay for centuries, harming sea life and making their way into the human food chain. These microplastics – fragments of plastic smaller ...