Black plastic containers: These are another popular choice for restaurants and while they are often made from recycled ...

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Every hour, 2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away in the United States. While many of us justify drinking from plastic bottles or buying our food in plastic containers by telling ourselves it's ...

Most of the “recyclable” plastic we all use ends up in the landfill. Its a logistics and economics problem. There needs to be a better way to handle this massive waste stream. A company called CRDC ...

At the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford University​, an incredible collaboration is taking place between a ...

Barry Friesen remembers the days when plastic wasn’t used on farms. “One of my first summer jobs was working as a farm hand on a dairy farm,” he recalls. “It would take a team of workers six weeks to ...

It's just wrong to have shopping carts full of plastic. We can and must do a better job of ending our addiction to plastic.