It’s a half-hour promo reel about Bakelite Plastic. There is so much to enjoy about this film, but we’ve been overlooking it because the first six minutes or so consist of an uncomfortably ...

Davis turns synthetic bakelite into beautiful and sought-after jewelry. He held a trunk sale at Greenleaf & Crosby on Worth ...

The first plastic that we really recognize as plastic, as we think of it today, is Bakelite, invented in 1907. Leo Baekeland was looking for an inexpensive form of shellac, which was getting ...

Recycling remains one of the most viable strategies for managing plastic waste, yet traditional methods face several challenges.

Though the design world has gradually moved away from mass produced plastic following the boom of 1980s postmodern designers ...

Created more than a century ago, bakelite is a completely synthetic plastic material used in industrial and commercial products. Because it doesn’t contain petroleum, it can’t be melted or ...