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 ...

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 ...

One of the big challenges in plastics recycling is the tsunami of low-value materials like polypropylene yogurt cups or polystyrene food containers that cities say are very difficult for them recycle ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

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 ...