"Less waste and low key cute." Gardener shares fantastic way to get more use out of empty prescription bottles: 'This is such ...

Right now, if one of the 500 billion-plus plastic bottles made this year reaches a lake or ocean, fragments of the plastic could last for decades or possibly even centuries.

The Chattahoochee river watchdog installed Columbus’ first trash trap at Cooper Creek with the help of the Australian-based ...

After the fireworks concluded, the beaches of Hampton Roads needed attention, littered with everything from discarded water ...

In the video, she shows her team pulling numerous plastic items from the ocean, including a bag of bread, parts of buckets, a plastic water bottle, styrofoam, and other unidentifiable debris ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...

When bottles can be re-used, fewer water bottles will end up in landfills or the ocean. One person switching up to a reusable bottle can save an average of 156 plastic bottles year, according to ...

France's food safety agency, ANSES, has released a study which goes against the popular belief that glass bottles are safer.

Authorities in Ocean City, Maryland, have closed several beaches after medical waste, including syringes and pill bottles, washed ashore. Some beaches are only closed to swimming, while others ...

Drinks sold in glass bottles, like soda, wine, or beer, may contain more microplastic particles than those in plastic ones, a ...

A massive ocean survey finds plastic in every layer of the North Atlantic, revealing how deeply it has invaded marine ecosystems.