In the classic 1967 film The Graduate, a family friend of lead character Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman) offers him career advice: “One word. Plastics! I was 16 when The Graduate was ...

Paring down your toiletries is a feat in and of itself; however, if your Dopp kit is still overflowing with shampoos, ...

Washing reusable plastic bags can also send microplastics into waterways. "While we don’t have a clear answer to exactly how long it takes plastic bags to break down in the environment ...

which is most commonly found in plastic drinks bottles; HDPE, or high-density polyethylene, which is typically used for milk containers; and LDPE, or low-density polyethylene, which is used for ...

Apparently it might not have been the last straw. Or plastic bag, for that matter. Just months away from New Jersey reaching three years of banning single-use plastic bags in most stores and paper ...

Shifting tides: Heavyweight reusable shopping bags were supposed to solve a problem. TheyǃÙve created a different one When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic ...

A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags ...

Ten years ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban plastic bags. But over the next few years, the state’s landfills actually saw an increase in plastic waste. That’s because a ...

Among the plastic in your house might be an orange-colored hard laundry detergent bottle and a squeezable clear ketchup bottle ... No. 1 and No. 2, PET and HDPE) is delivered to a facility ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene ... Left to right, a jug made of high density polyethylene, a test tube of polypropylene and a low density polyethylene bread bag. The numbers below ...