Thirty bottles will buy you a ticket on the subway or bus.

A concept water bottle pulls water from the air like the Namib Desert Beetle.

You may think you're ingesting a safe, clean product, but you're really putting synthetic microfibers into your body.

Just what the Great Lakes needs, more aquatic invasives. We're worrying about Asian carp and now we have whales? Whales in the Great Lakes, on Lake Superior? Well, "whale burps" have been found

Restaurants win; Great Lakes lose.

As environmental awareness spreads, shoppers are making different choices.

We are now prisoners of the petrochemical industry.

I don't buy many plastic bottles, but the ones that I do will take some creative workarounds to avoid.

The French government has set a goal of eliminating all single-use plastics by 2040. Phase one has begun.

I tasked myself with buying no plastic bottles for the year; here's how it's going so far.

They are basically solid fossil fuels, putting out as much as 6 kg of CO2 for every kg of plastic.

What is vinyl? Let's explore how this ubiquitous and versatile plastic is made, what its uses are, and all of its safety concerns.

TreeHugger and Elephant Journal have teamed up to share 31 creative tips for skipping plastic, one for each day of July.

Perhaps yes, if our food system stays the way it is, but maybe that's what we should be challenging.

Starting in 2020, the company will redesign packaging to be more environmentally-friendly.

Made by NPR, it explains what's recyclable, what becomes trash, and why.

This year, Gandhi's birthday will be marked by a national crackdown on six specific plastic items.

It's time we stopped greenwashing plastic alternatives and realized they do more harm than good.

And researchers estimate there's another 3 trillion pieces in surface sediments.

A new study shows that all-plastic tea bags release billions of particles into hot water.

"Bags for life," as they're called, do not get reused nearly as much as retailers would like to believe.

Hawaii's most populated island is implementing tough new rules for packaging.

A scientific assessment has confirmed enormous amounts of waste and definite harm to wildlife.

Judith Thornton questions the conventional wisdom about plastic packaging. She has a controversial point.

Environment minister called waste importers 'traitors' who don't care about the country's long-term sustainability.

Bloom hoovers up harmful algae overgrowth from waterways and turns it into a flexible foam that can replace some petroleum-based products.

A new term for those who try to live without plastic, that might just catch on.

From one problem to the next...

With 100 percent recycled content, it's an impressive standard for technical gear.

They're non-toxic, waterproof, and cute.

A modern life without plastic may seem an impossibility, but this Canadian duo shows it's achievable.

All because people are too lazy to find a sink.

Lake Michigan alone receives the equivalent of 100 Olympic-sized pools full of plastic bottles each year.

Current water treatment can't remove these wastes that are increasingly implicated in serious environmental effects

Last week news broke that microplastics are found in 93% of bottled water and the highest levels ever were found in an English river. Can we ever clean this up?

Plastic is often thought of as an ocean contaminant, but it's in our freshwater lakes, too.

This could mean we're drinking our plastic waste.

Showing other cities around the world how it's done.

Canadian National Railways figures out a crazy new way to mix oil and plastic – to what end?

We've covered Jendarling's organic garment bags before. But with the holiday/travel season in full swing, their new chic Chelsea Girl collection, comprised of non-plastic garment and travel bags, is right on cue. For Jendarling,

Levi's new denim line will incorporate on average, eight 12 to 20-ounce plastic soda bottles per jean.

It's only happening in half the world. The rest of us can keep using plastic sticks. (Don't they know about ocean currents?)

This technique transforms used plastic bottles into beautiful jewelry by burying them into hot desert sand -- and the project creates a sustainable business for Saharawi refugees.

Take nearly 8,000 old plastic bottles, add some construction waste and mud, and voila: a sturdy and sustainable home.

When you stop buying prepackaged foods, you have to start cooking them yourself. It's not that hard once you get into the swing of it.

From cherries and cauliflower to grapes and pumpkins, wonderful things happen when you cook these foods whole.

It's part of a statewide effort to crack down on plastic waste.

Provincial regulation would make stores' waste-reduction efforts easier to manage.

A hopeful report by Greenpeace envisions a future where supermarkets have gotten rid of superfluous waste.

The Story of Stuff's latest film underscores the importance of putting deposits on all cans and bottles.