Groundwater extracted to help fill billions of plastic bottles a year poses a potential threat to drinking water resources and feeds the world’s plastic pollution crisis, while the industry’s ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell ...

But it's also why caps on half-gallon paper cartons of milk and juice and plastic soda and water bottles are harder to turn and why the body of plastic bottles sometimes twist along with the cap ...

Reusable metal oxide-based nanocatalysts can convert waste plastic bottles into products that can be used to make biodegradable copolyesters, plasticizers and specific resins 1, 2. Studies ...

Last year, volunteers removed nearly 277,000 pieces of trash, most of it plastic, from New Jersey beaches. Plastic made up 83% of debris picked up by beach sweep volunteers, up from about 50% in ...

A new requirement for a tethered design for plastic caps on drinks bottles officially comes into force in the EU on Wednesday, but what’s behind the move? Cracking open a cold coke on a hot day ...