The brand’s bottles accounted for 11% of all branded plastic waste globally. Coca-Cola rolls out sweeping bottle changes ...

By 2021 annual production had roughly doubled, with the trade in plastics (and goods containing it) estimated to be worth ...

Illinois lawmakers are trying the curb plastic production by limiting foam food containers and single-use plastic bags, which ...

When Kutner arrived there as a volunteer in July 2007, the area was known for three things: its marble production ... from a soda bottle and...Eureka! “I realized that the plastic bottle ...

More than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals have been traced to fracking in the Permian Basin, one of the world’s ‘carbon bombs’.

New Yorkers thirsty for change this Earth Day can get a free reusable water bottle to help save the Earth from single use plastics. The shoe company Rothy’s ...

So I wanted to make my own tools so I could use recycled plastic locally.” Typical plastic production, like injection molding, uses very large and expensive machines — so expensive that most ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY BRIAN LEHMANN On Okinawa, Japan, a hermit crab resorts to a plastic bottle cap to protect its ... when plastic production was roughly a twentieth of what it is today.

Made from PET plastic, it is prized for its durability, lightness, and low cost of production. While these characteristics make it ideal for various uses across the textile industry, the ...