A Pittsburgh startup has a new prescription for plastic waste: a mostly paper pill bottle. Why it matters: Billions of ...

A scientific review found that infant formula, plastic bottles, and packaging, along with other feeding supplies, expose babies to microplastics and hormone-disrupting chemicals, with estimates that a ...

We’ve been told for decades that a plastic bottle lasts 450 years, or even that plastic never goes away. But how would anyone ...

I know, know: you’re reading my headline with horror and shock, clutching your vacuum-insulated water bottle, shuddering with rage that one would even dare suggest that plastic water bottles could be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Volunteers with Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup (ICC) picked up 1,338,712 plastic beverage bottles and 885,854 ...

We all recognize the first and best way to deal with the overabundance of plastic bottles in the trash is to avoid using them at all. A reusable water bottle helps, but for many, a genuine effort will ...

Polyethylene terephthalate, otherwise known as PET, is as ubiquitous a material as it is unknown to most of the people who use it every day. PET is most widely used to produce single-use water and ...

Summertime has come, and with it the need for greater hydration. If you're good at staying hydrated, you're probably accustomed to carrying bottles of water everywhere you go (even though water ...

Place a carbonated plastic bottle on a table.Looking at the bottom, it is divided into five legs like flower petals. The tea ...

An indigenous plastic recycling plant in Mowe, Ogun State, Polysmart Packaging Limited, says it plans to process up to 6.5 billion discarded plastic bottles annually, as Nigeria grapples with plastic ...