Associate Editorial/Opinion Editor Owen Carmicino ’26 talks about different plastics, their various uses, and their effects on the world we live in.

Like many others, they were looking for synthetic ... in a water-clear plastic with a lower melting temperature than PET that can be molded and extruded. These properties make PETG and other ...

Plastic’s history is chock-full of happy accidents, starting in the late 1860s when John Wesley Hyatt unintention-ally developed Celluloid, a synthetic plastic that he used as a substitute for ivory ...

Synthetic materials, like plastic, are made from chemicals ... conductors of heat and electricity and some are magnetic. Their properties make them useful for objects such as cutlery, saucepans ...