A new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that each bottle ... contain hundreds of thousands of nanoplastics, which are tiny particles of plastic ...

so you don’t need to get coal and petroleum from the earth. Plastic water and soda bottles often contain a chemical called polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Using PET bottles to make recycled ...

WASHINGTON - A typical one-litre bottle of water contains some 240,000 ... including many synthetic fabrics. While plastic pollution exists everywhere on Earth, bottled water is of particular ...

In the U.S. alone, about 4 to 5 billion plastic pill bottles are thrown away each year. That’s enough plastic to circle the Earth multiple times. While they might seem harmless, these bottles ...

In the process of keeping BPAs out of plastic, manufacturers sometimes fail to disclose that their bottles contain other ...

Research shows it could be dangerous over time, and 93% of water bottles contain microplastics ... the average American?

For many people, "plastic pollution" calls to mind pictures of turtles and other marine life drowning in single-use plastic ...

Every plastic bottle, straw and container ever thrown away is still intact and somewhere on earth. The plastic problem affects every ... including natural gas and crude oil, and also contains ...

A small cardboard box contains enough ... said Ratner about Earth Breeze detergent sheets, which eliminated the chore of transporting and tossing bulky plastic bottles in her San Francisco apartment.

By Christine Hauser Sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use plastic ... we are uniquely positioned to do better for our Earth,” she said in a statement. The Interior Department ...

Consumers who switched from polycarbonate-plastic water bottles ... to spring for name-brand bottles, however, several included in the new study either did not contain a resin liner or did not ...