The plastic chemicals in our food

Couch cushions, rugs and carpets are made of polyester fibers; furniture and flooring is coated in plastic laminates. The ...

Recycling Can’t Solve Our Plastic Crisis

Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...
Yahoo

Coca-Cola bottler makes major change to aluminum can packaging: ‘75,000 pounds of plastic each year’

A Philadelphia-based bottling company has ditched the so-called “six-pack” plastic rings featured in most packs of soda cans. Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages, a local plant which bottles Coca-Cola ...

Commentary: We’re losing the race against plastic, but there’s a solution

Within 15 years, a garbage truck’s worth of plastic could be entering our environment every second. Not every minute. Every ...
NPR

She tried to avoid plastic while grocery shopping for a week. Here's how it went

I didn't see the thin plastic thread running between one leaf on my pineapple and its tag when I put the pineapple in my shopping cart, when I checked out or when I unpacked groceries at home. It wasn ...
Ars Technica

Can you keep paint in plastic containers?

We have a lot of leftover paint from our various remodelling efforts. We like to keep it around for touchup, nail pops, ect. The thing is, the paint cans have drips all over them, some of them don't ...