A 2024 study by the French NGO Agir pour l’Environnement found that repeatedly opening and closing plastic soda bottles significantly increased the number of microplastic particles in the beverages.

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

Coca-Cola is slimming down its bottle. The beverage giant is debuting 13.2-ounce soda bottles, an easier-to-sip alternative to its 16.9-ounce six-pack bottles, marking the first time the brand has ...

A granola bar wrapper, the shrinkwrap on a cucumber, the mailer from an online store. The average person interacts with dozens of pieces of plastic every day, most of it totally ephemeral. By some ...

It’s a small matter, but a detail dedicated recyclers want to get right. Should you remove the cap of a plastic bottle before recycling it? How about the lid of a metal container? How about the lid of ...