California's long anticipated single-use plastic law is now in effect. Environmentalists and anti-waste activists are suing, ...

Many people have a drawer in their kitchen crammed with ketchup packets, plastic cutlery, chopsticks, or single-serving ...

A sweeping state recycling bill calls for scores of companies to stop using plastic wrap when packaging products, which ...

Plastic bags are a relatively recent invention which replaced paper bags when they debuted. One of the reasons grocers made ...

Amazon is eliminating the use of the puffy plastic air pillows used in delivery boxes, joining other major companies that are cutting their plastic use. The company said it was shipping 15 billion ...

A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home to unload. But the truth is, each decision we make inside the store ...

Reducing plastic in food prep and storage may lower harmful chemical exposure in just seven days. Ultra-processed foods and ...

Just about every home kitchen has “that” space — the one where all the old butter tubs and takeout containers are crammed, along with tons of mismatched lids. The next time you’re reaching in there to ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...

Researchers at the University of Western Ontario in Canada have proposed using polycarbonate (PC) as an encapsulant for solar module assembly to replace ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), which is ...

A surprisingly robust, green alternative to plastic packaging was developed using the hemp plant, instead of expensive fossil ...