Reusable water bottles can help you stay hydrated, but experts say not cleaning your water bottle regularly can expose you to ...

E veryone's heard the warnings: The world produces 450 billion tons of plastic waste every year. It's polluting our oceans and landfills, and it's even invading our bodies. But what if we didn't just ...

Over the course of evolution microorganisms have evolved pathways to break down many materials. The challenge with the many materials that we humans have created over just the past decades is that ...

Drinks sold in glass bottles, like soda, wine, or beer, may contain more microplastic particles than those in plastic ones, a surprising new study published by France's food safety agency suggests.

From Trash to Treatment The process starts with breaking down PET plastic bottles into terephthalic acid, one of the basic building blocks of the plastic. Scientists then chemically modify this ...

French researchers discover glass bottles shed significantly more microplastics into drinks than plastic or metal packaging.

Newsom has called for a future free of plastic waste, yet a single-use plastic bottle is usually by his side during his podcasts.

Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency ...

Some types of microplastics come from things we might not think of as “plastic,” like tires, paint, and synthetic clothing. Most of the microplastics in the ocean come from larger plastics, such as ...

Glass bottles can persist in the ocean for up to a million years, potentially shattering into dangerous fragments, while plastic bottles break down into microplastics that enter the food chain and ...

“The best way for Pepsi to reduce plastic pollution is not by abandoning goals but by dramatically increasing the use of refillable bottles – which can be used up to 50 times if made of glass.