To ditch plastic containers for personal care products, a Swedish startup found a new way to use aluminum cans.

This new packaging is a crucial step in addressing our plastic use as a company. About 15 years ago, we were among the first adopters of 100 percent PCR plastic bottles for liquid soaps, and now are ...

Bar soap typically comes with minimal packaging — a cardboard box, paper or nothing at all — which is often easy to recycle. Soap bars also sometimes come in plastic wrap, but it’s generally ...

The company took note of past performance and made upgrades. Leading cleaning brand unveils game-changing product update that ...

My waste from the week fills a big paper grocery bag, with a total of around 102 plastic or mixed-material items — like cling wrap from my DIY fruit fly traps, a plastic lid that got warped in ...

The brand Native sells aluminium-free deodorant sticks that contain no plastic packaging. Go for compostable trash bags If ...

Plastic waste could soon be used to make the very soap you bathe with each day. Image source: dottedyeti / Adobe. Traditional recycling struggles to compete with the cost of producing new plastic.

Looking around my bathroom a few years ago, I noticed two things. Almost everything came in a plastic container. And despite being labeled soap, conditioner or shampoo, most products’ first ...

Two types of common plastic can be turned into the key molecules that are used to make soap. “Plastic pollution is a major problem we face today,” says Greg Liu at Virginia Tech. So, he and ...

A new report looks at major companies’ efforts to address plastic waste — and finds them lacking Of the 147 companies with a package recyclability goal, only 15 percent were on track to meet it.