Chips, crackers, and cookies are all snack royalty, but their plastic containers cause a royally huge trash problem. Luckily, there are snack brands creating packaging that’s designed to change that.

The US Plastic Pact announced a voluntary plan Jan. 25 to phase out 11 materials they consider “problematic or unnecessary,” by 2025, because they’re not recycled at effective levels or they’re ...

In 1938, a 27-year-old chemist named Roy Plunkett stumbled across a new type of chemical, one with a bond so strong it would end up sticking around long after he died—in fact, almost forever. Today, ...