In the early 1980s, Doug Peck helped revolutionize the food industry as part of a research team that developed the first stable plastic food container on the market. Peck was working for the H.J.

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 ...

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A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...

Scientists invent process that converts plastic bottles into paracetamol, which is a common drugstore painkiller used in ...

A Canadian eco-innovator transforms plastic waste into a castle in Panama, inspiring sustainable building solutions.

Bottled water is up to a hundred times worse than previously thought when it comes to the number of tiny plastic bits it contains, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ...

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Environmental and consumer rights organisations are taking legal action against Nestlé, Danone, and The Coca-Cola Company, over recyclable claims made about their plastic bottles. They have raised an ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. “Certain single-use plastic containers, such as ...