Most of us are familiar with the difficulty of opening some types of plastic packaging- especially the hard packaging that encases so many things. The frustration has been coined "wrap rage." The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Foster Farms of Farmerville, Louisiana, is recalling about 148,000 pounds of fully cooked frozen chicken-breast patty products that might be contaminated with extraneous materials - ...

In an effort to cut down on plastic waste, packaging is taking on different forms that can be more easily recycled or that do away with plastic altogether. By Jesus Jiménez The plastic rings ...

As plastic piles up in landfills, New York authorities on the state and local levels are shifting their focus from recycling to reduction. Bales of sorted plastic for recycling are seen in a warehouse ...

If you’ve ever struggled to get one of those pesky plastic containers known as a blister pack open, to get at the item inside you’ve just purchased, you know the frustration involved. But there’s a ...

When it comes to recycling, most folks know to sort their plastic and paper, thanks to the blue and green plastic sorting bins given out by their municipal departments. But beyond the basics of ...

The thin plastic thread running between one leaf on my pineapple and its tag does me in. I don’t see it when I put the pineapple in my shopping cart, when I load the check out conveyor belt or when I ...

Tom Garfinkel remembers sitting in awe and disbelief as he watched the 60 Minutes special on plastic pollution. The vice chairman, president and CEO of the Miami Dolphins and Hard Rock Stadium was ...