Plastic use keeps rising rapidly while recycling struggles. Incineration grows steadily, but it may harm more than help.

My kitchen utensil drawer needed an overhaul. After adding more and more gadgets over the years, it’s become a frustrating mess each time I try to find the item I need. Sometimes, I can’t even get the ...

Before you toss out your used tea bags, you can reuse them around your home and garden. Take a look at the many ways you can ...

A team of biomaterial engineers, environmental resource specialists and industrial design researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across Japan has developed a biodegradable material that is ...

Seattle’s Material Recovery Facility (MRF) is a cacophonic, colorful symphony of industry, and it almost never stops—because ...

Loose-leaf teas are another easy way to bypass plastic tea bags—just use a stainless steel steeper, which can go directly into your cup. Pro tip: When making a big batch of tea, use a French press.

Inside a New Mexico lab, researchers estimate there is five bottle caps worth of plastic in human brains. Now they are trying ...

Kitchen designers and professional organizers say you need to get rid of these eight items ASAP in order to have a ...

The 2024/25 FA Cup is wide open as the quarterfinal round takes place. One semifinalist has been decided so far, Crystal Palace defeating Fulham 3-0 at Craven Cottage. Three other sides are yet ...

A plastic cup is no good if certain liquids can dissolve it, after all. In this case, the team found that applying hydrophobic coatings prevented any early breaking down of the material.

Mikaela Shiffrin earned her 101st World Cup win Thursday, taking the last race of a season that was so challenging that she for a time wondered whether she should still be ski racing. Shiffrin won the ...

This included things like plastic bags, drink cans, glass bottles, plastic ropes, and plastic cups. Based on the size of the area surveyed ... as revealed by the pile-up of different types of waste ...