The massive quantities of cheap plastic beads are a relatively new phenomenon ... Aside from those used for art projects, they aren't being melted down and turned into something new.

Mark Rowe reports on the failure to agree on an international treaty to limit plastic pollution and what our best hopes are ...

A plastic craft material often used by children, melty beads are arranged on a grid in patterns, then ironed to melt and fuse the beads together in an image. "They are really fragile, like one ...

There was seemingly nothing left except for her Skutt kiln, which had within it an intact bead of hand-blown ... and they said anything plastic could melt on my skin,” Akashi explained—and ...

The choppy gray waters of the Hudson Bay are numbingly cold in the days before the season’s first snow in the Canadian Arctic ...

Zhu Zhu Pets were kind of like the original Roombas, except they didn't clean anything and they made mind-melting ... plastic sheeting fortress around your kid for this one. When you soak Orbeez ...

Delicate bead work at the Women's Association in Ilulissat ... the surplus tossed into plastic buckets, and nets are mended. Around the next headland, the Icefjord reveals itself.

Herman Muli is not just recycling; he is also upcycling; with the final products being drinking glasses, ornate light ...

Hold a nail in the flame of a candle with a pair of pliers and use the heated tip to melt the holes in the plastic. Suspended from a ceiling ... You can make it rain (or snow) with a few dangling ...

Look no further than Out of the Closet in Fort Lauderdale, a thrift store that’s more than just a bargain hunter’s paradise.

"We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life." - Nikos Kazantzakis Most people don't like to talk about death. How it ends. What happens afterwards?