My grandson left a plastic bag of bread on top of the toaster oven recently. Now there's melted plastic on the oven. Is there a way to remove the plastic? Yikes! First, turn the toaster on so the ...

It happens to the best of us: in the middle of dinner prep, a plastic bowl gets left on a hot burner and tonight’s meal cleanup just got exponentially more complicated. The smell of melting plastic is ...

Q:I’ve seen recipes from chefs that call for covering food with plastic wrap and then foil before putting the food in the oven. Won’t the plastic melt into the food? Restaurant kitchens often use food ...

The latest sign that plastic pollution is a gigantic global problem: rocks fused with melted plastic have been found on a remote Brazilian island, best known as a nesting site for green turtles.

Melted plastic trash on beaches can sometimes mix with sediment, basaltic lava fragments and organic debris (such as shells) to produce a new type of rock material, new research shows. The new ...

After laying a 700-meter plastic-tar road at a university campus in Bali, Indonesian officials announced plans to use the material on roads in Jakarta and other cities. So-called plastic roads, which ...