New inventions and technologies are making it possible for plastic to be reused, repurposed, and reimagined to tap its value many times over. About 380 million metric tons of plastic are produced ...

Every day, tiny plastic particles called nano- and microplastics find their way into your drinking water. Invisible to the naked eye, these fragments could silently threaten your health. Recent ...

If you had a glass of water from the tap today, you likely ingested plastic. Orb Media conducted an investigation of plastic in our tap water over 10 months, and their results were shocking: over 80 ...

Microplastics: these tiny particles are literally everywhere, and researchers are just beginning to understand their impacts on human health. Like many people, you might be looking for ways to reduce ...

Worried about plastic pollution in your tap water? Try boiling in it, a new study suggests. Boiling tap water can destroy at least 80 percent of three of the most common plastic compounds that can be ...