Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

It's gradually becoming common knowledge that it's not as easy to recycle your takeaway coffee cup as people may have thought. It's the mixture of paper and plastic in their inner lining ...

Now activists say Exxon Knew for years that very little plastic waste is actually recycled. The oil giant is deceiving ...

Easy, convenient, cheap': how single-use plastic rules the ... The iced beverage, infused with fruit juice, is dispensed into plastic cups for eager sun worshippers dotted along the seafront.

He said: "There are millions of plastic drinking cups that do not have this warning, and they are cheap and plentiful," he said. "Under such circumstances, why take a chance?" Veronica does not ...

To create new forms of food packaging to replace the unsustainable designs upon which modern life seems to depend: single-use plastic beverage cups ... products from bulk containers: the snacks ...

Then there is that mountain of plastic waste created when you have gone through your 100th bottle of window cleaner and the like. While most people are keen to switch out their traditional ...

I just got a kick out of it (and maybe I’d get the inside track on a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup). It’s not that ... “I, too, remember those thin, brittle plastic masks with the sharp edges ...

For many of us, plastic containers are part of our daily lives; we use them to store, freeze, heat and transport a variety of different foods. But some scientists are concerned that the chemicals ...

This is one of several policies designed to limit the amount of plastic litter – particularly the caps from single-use plastic bottles, which are far more likely to find their way into the ...