Back in 2010, we investigated a claim that homemade bombs – made out of popular drain clog remover Drano and aluminum inside a plastic bottle – presented a real danger to the public.

Health experts have issued a warning to anyone drinking out of a plastic water bottle amid fears of the "hidden risks." With recent warm temperatures in September, many of us have been staying ...

Re: “Is your water bottle really made from recycled plastic?” [Aug. 28, Business]: Although the article illuminates some of the hypocrisy in the recycling business, it left out a very ...

The plastic CamelBak bottles displayed in a Target in East Hanover, New Jersey, offer a promise to ecologically conscious buyers. On the front of each is a bright blue sticker with the words ...

Imagine wearing a gho or kira crafted from plastic bottles—durable, comfortable, and entirely eco-friendly. This might soon become a reality. Clean Bhutan, a civil society organisation dedicated to ...

“Although rPET might sound controversial, with today’s technology and in the absence of a proper system in the UK to collect and reuse glass bottles, the recycled plastic bottle is a good ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are the building blocks of polypropylene and other types of plastics. The process uses inexpensive solid ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene tetraphthalate (PET), a polyester, were designed in the 1980s to be recycled this way. But the volume of polyester plastics is minuscule compared ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California ...

Most recycled polyester that we use comes from plastic water and soda bottles! Using recycled polyester is better for the earth than using new polyester. Here’s why. To make new polyester, you need to ...