Have you ever stopped to think about what happens to those little orange pill bottles after you finish your prescription? Every year, around 200 billion of these bottles are produced worldwide, and ...

Over the past decade, it's come to light that plastic recycling is mostly bogus – essentially a marketing scheme crafted by the oil industry. (Raw plastic materials come from fossil fuel production.) ...

France’s food safety agency found that glass-bottled drinks, such as iced tea, lemonade, and beer, exhibited some of the highest contamination levels. A French food safety agency study found that ...

A 2024 study by the French NGO Agir pour l’Environnement found that repeatedly opening and closing plastic soda bottles significantly increased the number of microplastic particles in the beverages.

Drinks in glass bottles contained more microplastics than those in plastic bottles or cans, according to a new French study. Researchers traced most of the microplastic particles to the painted metal ...

Drinking from plastic bottles may be poisonous to your health — and drinking straight from the tap might save your life. A recent study published in the journal Microplastics found that drinking from ...

Experts explain some of the potential risks. Ask Well Experts explain some of the potential risks. Credit...Eric Helgas for The New York Times Supported by By Melinda Wenner Moyer Q: If I leave a ...

Newsom has railed against plastic waste, but videos of the governor’s ‘This is Gavin Newsom’ podcasts usually feature a single-use plastic water bottle by his side. ‘It’s like that whole French ...