Discover a smart fix for broken plastic items using an ingenious plastic welding method with a soldering iron. This technique ...

Scientists have found a way to turn food scraps into biodegradable plastics using bacteria, offering a promising solution to ...

But [Matthias Wandel] may be on to something. Here he’s using nichrome wire to reinforce the broken plastic part. The repair process is demonstrated in full in the video after the break.

The results showed the mixed plastic can spontaneously repair itself at normal temperatures ... dissolved when plastic products break down. Items fashioned from ordinary plastic must be melted ...