In 1969, Republican Congressman Paul McCluskey warned executives gathered at a packaging conference that they had to do ...

Learn how to clean paint brushes and rollers correctly with expert tips from some of the industry's biggest paint brands. If paint brushes and rollers aren't properly cleaned (or if you allow the ...

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

We know that our unwanted items, which we dutifully put in plastic trash bags that are carted from our vision, don’t vanish. In the United States, most trash still goes to landfills, where it becomes ...

Refilling a bottle instead of throwing it away has become a popular way for people to reduce waste — a small, tangible action in response to larger environmental problems.

Everyday items like clothing, plastics and packaging can last centuries. Here’s how long they tend to breakdown and why ...

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

As of Thursday afternoon, and with two days left to go, an estimated 150-180 trash bags of recycling had been collected so far in the plastic water bottle return that ran Feb. 16-21, said Larry Large, ...

Plastic from Canada that dates from the 1960s recently washed up on the shores of a Scottish island. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to David Warner from Orkney, Scotland who made the discovery.