Model kits first appeared in the 1930s and became increasingly popular in the 1950s. Today almost any prototype car, lorry, train. plane or shop can be found as a plastic kit. The plastic is ...

An international collaboration headed by researchers in the Department of Physics has shown that additive manufacturing ...

Rather than being a source, the ocean appears to be a sink, in which 15 percent of all airborne microplastics are deposited.