Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ditch the plastic water bottles — and six other ways to reduce your plastic consumption. (Getty Creative) There’s no way to stop ...

More than 400 million metric tons of plastic is produced annually, and only a small fraction is recycled. The rest ends up in landfills, or leaks into the natural environment, which is impacting ...

Dear Eartha, My New Year’s resolution for 2025 is to use less plastic at home, but it seems really overwhelming. How can I get started without stressing myself out? What a wonderful resolution. The ...

Plastic recycling is, for many of us, a guilt provoking topic. I try to be careful of what I toss into my recycling bin, even so, I do not believe that all of it is recycled. Contrary to what the ...

Bridget Cevero of the Maritime Aquarium, left, and Annalisa Paltauf of Save the Sound, hold up the 35.75 pounds of trash collected by volunteers at the cleanup at Sherwood Island State Park last year.

As a result of decades of unchecked plastic production that is now breaking down, we're ending up with tiny plastic particles in our air, food, and drinks. "Planet vs Plastics" was the theme for Earth ...

It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic. It's a ...

Spring means it's time for gardeners to think about seedlings, those little baby plants all ready to get plunked into the ground. And a hands-on technique for growing them, called "soil blocking," is ...

There’s no way to stop our planet’s plastic consumption entirely; that genie is already out of the (plastic) bottle, and it will take government and private sector intervention to make a major ...