Alyssia-Rae Yates was left with severe burns after a boy kicked a fire pit containing molten plastic towards her ...

Alyssia-Rae Yates, 13, was hanging out with friends on a local green when a young boy burnt her leg - leaving her with ...

A 13-year-old girl suffered horrific burns after a boy dropped a lighter in a fire and kicked pieces of molten plastic at her ...

Recycling can be confusing enough as it is. To help, here's what those little numbers in recycling symbols actually mean.

Remembering the intense pain Alyssia, who was chilling with friends on Blackbrook fields at around 6pm on October 11, said: ...

It’s a method of connecting plastic pieces. While it’s new to ... the friction will cause the material to heat to the melting point, depositing a bead of styrene into the joint.

Most plastics melt at around 200 °C, whereas glass and aluminium have much higher melting points. The researcher believes the world should reevaluate its relationship with plastic and learn to ...

Alyssia-Rae Hutton, 13, was playing in a field with a friend when a boy allegedly kicked a fire at her in an "unprovoked ...

The 2000 presidential election cemented the color-coded nature of political parties. Prior to that race, the colors were ...

Metal is a good conductor of heat, and has a high melting point, making it good to cook with. Whereas the plastic of the handle doesn’t conduct heat so well, it’s an insulator. And plastic has ...

Plastics are unfortunately so cheap useful that they’ve ended up everywhere. They’re filling our landfills, polluting our ...