When it comes to modern-day house cats, however, it’s best to think inside the box. The best litter boxes will give cats enough room to dig, turn in circles, and bury, while also being easy for ...

A dissatisfied customer recently called out Landers, a well-known membership shopping store, for using reused boxes to pack his groceries.

Fortunately, there are many ways to make the midday meal a lot more pleasant—buying a great lunch box is chief among ... to use our own fork. And the clear plastic lid that fits over the fork ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" About 48 million tons of plastic waste are generated each year in the U.S., and very little of it is ever ...

These tiny plastic particles can range in size from ... a 2022 World Health Organization report concluded there was no clear risk to human health, based on the available evidence.

Researchers have cracked the code for turning plastic back into the building blocks to make new plastics. It could revolutionize recycling, which studies have shown is broken. Researchers at UC ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

Plastic pollution is deadly to ocean wildlife. Ingesting plastic can lead to slow and painful starvation, while plastic entanglement can cause loss of limbs and worse. None of the ocean’s inhabitants ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene tetraphthalate (PET), a polyester, were designed in the 1980s to be recycled this way. But the volume of polyester plastics is minuscule compared ...

Toymaker Lego said Wednesday it is on track to replace the fossil fuels used in making its signature bricks with more expensive renewable and recycled plastic, as sales and profits surged.