Avoid single-use plastics like water bottles, straws, gloves, shopping bags, wrappers, cigarettes, beads, and glitter. And ...

When June storms demolished three grain bins that Dean Bjornson had planned to use to store much of this year’s crop, his ...

Eliminating plastic from your coffee routine is difficult but not impossible. Here’s some of the best brewing gear to help ...

The plastic tubes supplied for coronavirus testing by Fillakit, a first-time federal contractor with a sketchy owner, don’t even fit the racks used to analyze samples. J. David McSwane Bio ...

The plastic tubes supplied by Fillakit are much cheaper than glass vials and can be sealed off with a soda bottle cap. When inflated with high-pressure air, they expand to the size of a 2-liter ...

Vital Therapies (VTL) has spent years trying to turn plastic tubes into a lifesaving artificial liver. The work has not gone well. Multiple clinical trials of Vital’s biomedical device called ...

Each year, over 350 million tons of plastic are produced, much of it ending up in landfills or the ocean. A major contributor ...

They switched to glass containers and tested solutions that had been used to rinse plastic ones. To their astonishment, they found that pure water which had been stored in plastic tubes for the ...

The plastic tubes are wrapped around the new trees to protect them from animals. As the tubes are not biodegradable, the team needs to collect them so they do not damage the environment.

He ordered 14 grain storage bags — long plastic tubes that have become more common on North Dakota farms in recent years — to ...

Volunteers are working to collect 6,000 plastic tubes that were used to protect newly planted trees. The trees were planted in Gillside Wood and Rusland Wood in the Lake District a number of years ...