Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

People who drink bottled water every day ingest 90,000 more microplastic particles per year than people who drink tap water, ...

Plastic bottles are not only piling up in our landfills and oceans. Research shows they also shed invisible plastic particles that end up in our bodies. A new study found that a one-liter bottle of ...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Scientists have discovered that recycled plastic contains a cocktail of hazardous chemicals that can seep into water. These substances are affecting the genes linked to fat ...

In Jiangxi, China, a teacher partnered with students to construct a rocket featuring two stages, each made from ordinary plastic bottles and launched using the pressure generated by water. The ...

No single-use materials are sustainable, but if you desperately need to buy a drink, here's what you should choose—and how to fight for better options. Reading time 5 minutes Welcome to Burning ...

DAVIDSON – In 2017, The Guardian conducted a study that found that globally, humans buy one million disposable plastic water bottles every minute, and that consumption was increasing. But are those ...

Graduate student RJ Conk adjusts a reaction chamber in which mixed plastics are degraded into the reusable building blocks of new polymers. A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics ...

The promise of endlessly recycled PET plastic is one step closer as the Consortium of Carbios, L’Oréal, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo and Suntory Beverage & Food Europe announced the successful production of ...

I know, know: you’re reading my headline with horror and shock, clutching your vacuum-insulated water bottle, shuddering with rage that one would even dare suggest that plastic water bottles could be ...

This may be hard to swallow, but the drinking bottle that you are dutifully carrying around with you all day to stay properly hydrated may be delivering more than water into your body. The most ...