The use of plastic gears is limited, largely because it takes special expertise to design them properly. Too, many engineers deal with gears so infrequently, The use of plastic gears is limited, ...

If you need an example of something that is unequivocally bad for the environment, here’s a suggestion: plastic water bottles. One million are sold each minute across the world, and though they’re ...

This article was updated March 6, 2023. It was originally published Aug. 1, 2001. Gears—even plastic ones—need to be lubricated if engineers are going to coax the best performance out of them. In the ...

Lower efficiency makes eco-friendly industrial nets and ropes fall short. That’s a trade-off we might have to accept. By Alastair Bland/Hakai Magazine Published Sep 16, 2023 7:00 PM EDT This article ...

Based on a 2015 study, there's about 8 million metric tons of plastic dumped into the ocean every year. Some of that is consumer waste and some of that is industrial waste created by the fishing ...

Think of marine plastic pollution and the image of a sea turtle stuck in a six-pack ring may leap to mind. Or in more recent days, the hotly contested plastic straw. But a new report by Greenpeace UK ...

Goodland, Ind.-based injection molder Adkev Inc. has acquired Harwood Heights, Ill.-based Winzeler Gear Inc. in a deal that will open doors to new markets for the acquirer as it closes a chapter of ...

It’s very likely that a majority of readers will have had a gear fail in a piece of equipment, causing it to be unrepairable. This is a problem particularly with plastic gears, which shed teeth faster ...

Abandoned fishing gear is the deadliest form of plastic debris for marine life and has already driven the vaquita porpoise and other marine mammals to the brink of extinction, yet even as this crisis ...

A coral reef destroyed by a ghost fishing net that has smothered all life beneath it. Your new pair of sneakers or sunglasses may have once been a tangled crusty mess of fishing net on the bottom of ...

It’s very likely that a majority of readers will have had a gear fail in a piece of equipment, causing it to be unrepairable. This is a problem particularly with plastic gears, which shed teeth faster ...