Eater tried to reach out to Vitale's family and the lawyers who helped her filed the patent but no one provided any additional information. The patent was approved in 1985 and lapsed in 1993 ...

Plastic grocery bags consume 40 percent less energy to produce and generate 80 percent less solid waste than paper bags. Plastic bags can take 5-10 years to decompose. Paper bags take about a ...

Over the past year, Amazon has reduced the portion of shipments it packs in its cardboard boxes in favor of lightweight plastic mailers, which enable the retailing giant to squeeze more packages ...

Environmentally-conscious area residents can ring in the new year with new ways to recycle. Grease-stained pizza boxes and plastic bottle caps, which we previously were unable to recycle, can now ...

That takeaway box that was in your hands for 10 minutes on Friday night could be in the ocean forever. Single use plastics are a real concern for the planet. The use and throwaway nature of items ...

The clear plastic boxes market share analysis is set for dynamic evolution between 2025 and 2035, driven by a combination of ...

A new composite plastic built layer by layer has been created by engineers at the University of Michigan. This plastic is as strong as steel. It has been built the same way as mother-of-pearl, and ...

Amazon used enough plastic air packets in its boxes to circle the planet 800 times in 2021, an outside group found. The company said it used far less. By Catherine Boudreau ...