Plastic is everywhere, but it's not great for your health or the planet. NPR's Claire Murashima cut out single-use plastics for a week. Here are her tips if you're looking to do the same.

It reads like an SNL parody. He waxed on and on about how all the different types of throw-away plastic–jars, bottles, cigarette boxes, shrink wrap–were replacing reusables at a staggering rate.

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Rebecca Prince-Ruiz started the Plastic Free July movement in Australia in 2011 after realizing how much waste her city threw out. She gave me some tips on living without plastic ahead of my ...

“It's so automatic.” Cigarette filters are made of a plastic called cellulose acetate. When tossed into the environment, they dump not only that plastic, but also the nicotine, heavy ...