Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their ...

You may have bought a drink recently and noticed something odd: the once removable cap is now tethered to the bottle by a small strip of plastic. Manufacturers have included the tether on bottles sold ...

Christian Cotroneo is the social media editor at Treehugger. He is a founding editor at HuffPost Canada, and former writer at The Dodo and Toronto Star. Tossing that plastic water bottle in the blue ...

There’s an astonishing amount of plastic bottle caps in the oceans. Now a breakthrough biopolymer cap has the potential to address the problem. Beyond Plastic introduces what it claims is the ...

March 1, 2019 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google With the recycling industry in flux, the rules surrounding recycling plastic aren’t always a given (at least, in ...

In Stamford, Connecticut, nonprofit organization SoundWaters has empowered students to lead the charge against plastic pollution by recycling bottle caps. Started in 2019 by SoundWaters, the One ...

A new California bill would require plastic bottle makers to tether caps to containers under three liters by 2027. Senate Bill 45 echoes a 2018 EU directive to phase out loose plastic bottle caps by ...

Californians should take pride that their state is the nation’s trend-setter for improving the environment. Whether it’s the plastic bags ban or gas mileage standards, California has led with ...

Assemblymember Mark Stone, a democrat representing the 29th California Assembly District, has reintroduced legislation to require plastic bottle caps to be tethered to their beverage containers. By ...