Titanium dioxide is officially out of U.S. Skittles, years after the brand said it would drop it. The color additive has been under global fire for possible health risks. It’s a step toward ...

Using mushrooms, scientists have created a living, plastic-like compound that uses unique fungal properties to mold into ...

Pro tip: Soak bags in baking soda water if you stored something stinky. Garlic-scented strawberries are not a thing. Use up your last roll of plastic wrap — and don’t replace it. Treat it like that ex ...

Finding the best way to recycle your 3D prints has led many makers to get crafty with their 3D printing scraps, while a ...

The tiny pieces of plastic scientists call microplastics are everywhere. They sit at the bottom of the sea, mix into beach sand, and blow in the wind. They’re also inside us. Last October ...

Plastic chemicals could be present in some popular organic food products, according to Consumer Reports, a nonprofit ...

“Castaway” runs through April 6 of next year at Harvard‘s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology. The Peabody‘s Ilisa ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

Kristina Smithe’s company, Hiccup Earth, has taken the cups to 137 races and spared more than 902,000 disposable ones from ...