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 ...

Researchers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found that an average one-litre bottle of water contains around 240,000 plastic particles, a figure that is 10 to 100 times ...

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 ...

A laser blast produces miniature diamonds from plain-old plastic. That’s right, the same kind used in soda bottles. When squeezed to about a million times Earth’s atmospheric pressure and ...

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 ...

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 ...

South Lake Tahoe's ban on single-use plastic water bottles goes into effect Monday just in time for Earth Day ... container of less than one gallon containing non-sparkling, unflavored drinking ...