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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...