Plastic is not necessarily the enemy in your kitchen. In fact, Chris De Armitt, PhD, founder and president of the Plastics Research Council, says, “Common plastics like polyethylene, polypropylene, ...

Giant machines are spread across a gray manufacturing floor at Texas Injection Molding in southeast Houston, where plastic is heated and molded into random widgets such as medical-grade containers for ...

In Hawaii, researchers are literally paving the roads with good intentions. They have come up with an innovative method for putting the island’s plastic pollution to work, covering its roads with ...

A new University at Buffalo study finds that people in the United States generate similar amounts of plastic packaging waste regardless of income, education level or where they live. Yet wealthier and ...

Just about every home kitchen has “that” space — the one where all the old butter tubs and takeout containers are crammed, along with tons of mismatched lids. The next time you’re reaching in there to ...

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A new Netflix documentary explores whether cutting out plastic can improve our health. But it’s hardly a perfect experiment. By Nina Agrawal In “The Plastic Detox,” a new documentary out Monday on ...

Core Storage containers are one of the many different crates in Marathon. As the name suggests, these containers have cores in them, along with a few other Salvage items. The main difficulty is ...

Plastic is one of the most durable materials humans have ever made. That durability has made it indispensable in medicine, food packaging and transport. But it’s also created one of the defining ...