Brits waste £17bn in food yearly — much of it due to plastic-wrapped multipacks. Experts say ditching packaging could stop ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — McDonald's Taiwan said Tuesday it has removed plastic lining from its packaging and is switching to ...

If you were wondering about alternatives to the landfill, reuse is your only option. Though Mylar is a plastic film, it doesn’t stretch at all (try to force it over your thumb and it will tear).

While you may be used to keeping your photographs in a photo album, this option has some downsides. Discover why you should ...

Here's a look at the movies that scored, struck out, or fell somewhere in the middle, during the first half of 2025.

The U.S. has less than 5% processing capacity for plastic films, and most of that comes from back-of-store sources like pallet wraps that tend to be cleaner.

The landscape fabrics found on store shelves come in several types and each one has some utility in the garden. Here's what ...

Ridwell co-founder and CEO Ryan Metzger shows off bags full of plastic film in the startup’s warehouse in Seattle’s SoDo area. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) ...

A 500-square-foot Trex deck uses about 140,000 plastic bags. Other companies will also buy the recycled film, according to Shari Jackson, director of film recycling for the American Chemistry Council.

The slick, transparent film we now know as plastic wrap was originally a mistake of chemistry, a residue clinging stubbornly to the bottom of a beaker in a 1930s laboratory. The military ...

One of the largest recyclers of plastic film in North America, Trex recycles approximately 400 million pounds of plastic waste annually, nearly all of which comes from postconsumer sources such as ...