Primary Materials
Below are our 7 articles in the primary materials' category:

Composting is perhaps the most perfect example of recycling because it is an entirely natural process which results in the creation of soil. It works by the decomposition of organic materials – raw ...

The joy of a book is its timeless shareable quality. Owning a book is a pleasure, and lending or borrowing a book is also a great pleasure, whether from a friend or from an institution, like a ...

So much of the food and household products we use on a daily basis come in cans – baked beans, tuna fish, pet food, paint... all available to us to an easy to carry, convenient-sized can. They are ...

Our lives are full of cardboard – it comes as packaging for nearly everything we buy.
From food to consumer goods cardboard is clearly here to stay. But the good news is that it is a recycleable ...

We all know the glass bottles that we buy our drinks in and the glasses we drink from, but what exactly is this miracle object, what is its history, and how is it made?
The Roman history Pliny ...

Where would we be without paper? Our bureaucratic academic and literary worlds, to give just a few examples, runs on mountains of paper, and despite the widespread use of computers in ...

At first glance plastic is a wonderful invention. It can be made in any size, any shape and any colour we want, and is perfect for storing any number of materials and liquids, ranging from water to ...