The seven recycling symbols on plastic packaging reveal more than you might think, but not all are recycled the same way in ...

This is an excerpt from Consumed: How Big Brands Got Us Hooked on Plastic. An odd symbol, made up of three arrows arranged in a triangle, began showing up on plastic containers across America in the ...

Running out of your favourite blusher or mascara is often met with the thrill of shopping for new make-up, with the empty tube long forgotten. For those who do try to recycle regularly, we see the ...

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. She’s distraught about the state of the environment. “It’s crazy what we’re doing. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time ...

You can swap out plastic products for reusable options in your personal life — like glass food storage containers and metal straws — but sometimes single-use plastics are unavoidable. Recycling is the ...