Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...

German sustainable packaging manufacturer Papacks will debut its Fiber-Bottle to the North American market during Pack Expo LV. Unlike other fiber bottles on the market, which still rely on plastic ...

In the early 1980s, Doug Peck helped revolutionize the food industry as part of a research team that developed the first stable plastic food container on the market. Peck was working for the H.J.

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 ...

Coca-Cola is among the globe's most well-known brands, a status achieved by not only the drink itself, but packaging, too. First bottled in 1899, the soda's distinct look formed over decades of ...

One of the biggest beverage companies on the planet is being boycotted by consumers because of its environmental practices and plastic pollution, Screenshot Media reported. Coca-Cola has been named ...

New research shows that the concentration of microplastics in our bodies has grown as global plastic production has increased The study looked at brain, liver and kidney tissue from cadavers The ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...