Plastics are made from natural materials such as wood, coal and oil. They can also be changed into synthetic materials with different properties. Plastic can be thin and transparent or thick and ...

Students will help plan and conduct different tests on the materials. Students will be able to explain that when testing materials to learn about their properties, all the materials need to be tested ...

Synthetic materials, like plastic, are made from chemicals. Most metals are strong, hard and shiny materials that can be hammered into different shapes without breaking. They are good conductors ...

Most people are trying their best to recycle plastic - but the many different ways in which recycling is collected by councils across the UK has left them confused over what can be recycled and ...

Recycled plastics ... where materials are reused and not thrown away. Eifion Williams says that plastics recycling is the big challenge to reducing waste "There are seven different types of ...