Scientists turn plastic waste into fuel using sunlight and water in a new study that could change how we manage pollution and ...

At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University​, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a ...

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Every hour, 2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away in the United States. While many of us justify drinking from plastic bottles or buying our food in plastic containers by telling ourselves it's ...

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Plastic bags tangled in trees. Takeout containers scattered along roadsides. Bottles clogging streams and waterways and washing up on beaches. Across the United States, plastic waste and pollution ...

Cutting food waste is an excellent way to reduce your household’s environmental impact while stretching your grocery budget. One of the most effective ways is by storing food properly—but plastic, the ...

Every year, the world produces roughly 400 million metric tons of plastic waste, according to the United Nations Environment ...

TRONCO's 24oz airtight glass food container-a premium glass lunch bowl-directly addresses the massive plastic waste generated ...

Barry Friesen remembers the days when plastic wasn’t used on farms. “One of my first summer jobs was working as a farm hand on a dairy farm,” he recalls. “It would take a team of workers six weeks to ...

It's just wrong to have shopping carts full of plastic. We can and must do a better job of ending our addiction to plastic.