Quills required single smooth flows of the nib; printing would have caused far too many blots and smudges. However, long ...

A practical guide from sustainability experts on reducing plastic at the grocery store and going zero waste at home.

A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home to unload. But the truth is, each decision we make inside the store ...

Amazon is phasing out plastic from the envelopes, bags, boxes and cushioning it uses to ship items, swapping in paper-based ...

Amazon is eliminating the use of the puffy plastic air pillows used in delivery boxes, joining other major companies that are cutting their plastic use. The company said it was shipping 15 billion ...

The cleanliness of cutting boards is a long-debated food safety issue, given that both wood and plastic — the most common cutting board materials — can easily harbor bacteria. New research shows that ...

A new year means new laws, but there are many that don't affect Californians' day-to-day lives. Here are a few that might.

Microplastics can leach into food through various mechanisms, so what about the microwave? I asked a professor of public ...

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs, and broken glass bottles as shelters instead of shells. Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying these ...

WUHAN, CHINA - OCTOBER 29: (CHINA OUT) A worker sorts used plastic bottles at a plastics recycling mill which is ceasing production as the global financial crisis starts to bite in China's recycling ...

Researchers developed a plant based plastic that stays strong during use but dissolves safely in seawater, leaving no ...