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Back in 2010, we investigated a claim that homemade bombs – made out of popular drain clog remover Drano and aluminum inside a plastic bottle – presented a real danger to the public.

And these are just the bits of it we can see. Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up ...

These plastic bottles are ready to be recycled, but there’s more to a circular economy than just recycling. Photograph by Teerasak Ladnongkhun / Shutterstock Product design — Think about the ...

Tests on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different ...

Most recycled polyester that we use comes from plastic water and soda bottles! Using recycled polyester is better for the earth than using new polyester. Here’s why. To make new polyester, you need to ...

So, a plastic bottle can only be recycled two or three times before it becomes unrecyclable. However, the new approach ...

For instance, there is an infamous email circulating saying that leaving plastic water bottles in the sun can cause chemicals to leach into the water causing cancer, and sometimes even cites a ...

Research by the parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee found countries with deposit return schemes tended to recycle between 80% and 95% of their plastic bottles. In Norway, 95% of all ...

If you know that most soda bottles are made from PET plastic, you’ve probably thought about how you could make filament from them and have an endless supply of cheap printing material.

If you want a smart water bottle that can keep cold liquid cold or hot liquid hot, you'll need one that’s made from stainless steel and provides some level of insulation. While a plastic water ...

Rockay claims it removes 714g (77 bottles) of plastic waste from the ocean for every bottle purchased. Rockay even encourages people to upcycle the packaging and use the tube the bottle came in as ...