Plastic contamination is a terrible issue—the oceans are flooded with plastic waste, which causes it to enter our food chain.

The same cap shortening has happened in soda and water The plastic lids for plastic soda pop and water bottles got smaller first. A study by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality found ...

Coke is also changing its recycling goal. In 2018, Coca-Cola announced that by 2030 it wanted to recycle the plastic equivalent of every bottle it put out into the world. That’s been reduced to ...

UK consumers go through an estimated 14 billion plastic drinks bottles per year, according to Defra, but single-use plastic is falling out of favour thanks to efforts from David Attenborough and ...

For the past 14 years, Armstrong has been collecting empty beer bottles and displaying them on shelves in his garage. “The rule is, if I don’t drink the beer, it doesn’t get to go on the ...

A man walks on a mountain of plastic bottles as he carries a sack of them ... deal with plastics and environmental groups. Simon has a background in the corporate world—she was a packaging ...

PET stands for polyethylene terephthalate, the plastic used to make single-use soda bottles and clamshell ... Corporate members should stay in the background, she suggested.

requiring companies to use some recycled material in their plastic products and raising money to help pay for waste management infrastructure, especially in developing countries. "From the vantage ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Looking for hard-to-find bottles of Kentucky bourbon to toast the holidays or add to a collection? Get your bids ready as the Bluegrass State launches its first online ...

Whether it's food packaging from a shop, or drinking juice from a plastic bottle, single-use plastics are a common part of life for many people. But it's a big issue for nature and the environment.

Plastic bottles, mostly made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), make up 5.5 per cent of global plastic production. In 2021, the average amount of PET bottle waste exceeded 25 million tonnes.