An NPR and PBS Frontline investigation reveals how the oil and gas industry used the promise of recycling to sell more plastic, even when they knew it would never work on a large scale.

If you recently threw out your black plastic spatula, as several news articles urged us to do, you might want to see if you can dig it back out of the trash. They were based on a study whose most ...

I recently threw away my trusty black plastic spatula after a scientific paper claimed that such utensils may contain dangerous levels of flame-retardant chemicals. It turns out the researchers ...

Whether your kitchen tools are black in color or not, if your aim is to reduce exposure to microplastics and chemicals leaching out of plastic, you may want to consider minimizing exposing any ...

Pepsi and Coke have pledged to zero out their emissions in the coming decades, but to meet the goals, they’ll need to fix a problem they helped create: the dismal recycling rate in the US.

However, with the ban going into effect on Aug. 20, there's one big loophole: plastic water bottles larger than one liter can still be sold.

Modernizing the bottle bill “physically increases the amount of material — the volume — that can be recycled, and it ensures that what you're getting back is higher quality,” Balkan says.