It's Canada Day, the U.S. is coming up on a long July 4 weekend, summer has fully settled in and it often marks when new laws take effect.

Most food deliveries come wrapped in petrochemicals. But there are ways to reduce the disposable plastic delivered to your ...

HIS obsession with photography was so consuming that it drove a young Leo Hendrik Baekeland beyond the darkroom and into the ...

A net zero “glass tax” will make bottles of wine and beer more expensive. The Government is expected on Friday to announce the final costs of a scheme that will force producers of packaging to pay for ...

Plastic waste is getting out of control. How organizing consumers, challenging corporations and winning new policies can ...

Commenters had suggestions about what to do. Shopper raises questions after making unexpected discovery inside recent purchase: 'So unnecessary' first appeared on The Cool Down.

A Reddit user shared their surprise that a restaurant offered a pickle slice that was wrapped in plastic. The post was shared ...

All that plastic costs the manufacturer money, an expense that gets passed on to the consumer. The extra labor for employees to package and unwrap items also adds to the costs. Once the plastic is ...

Personal protective equipment is made of plastic and isn't recyclable. Now it’s being found everywhere on earth, including the oceans. The solution isn’t complicated: Throw them away.

The country is poised to introduce a series of regulations that will make companies that produce and use plastic packaging ...

News 8 Sports Correspondents Dean Holzwarth and Andy McDonald discuss the bullpen struggles of the Detroit Tigers, West ...