You drink water from a plastic water bottle, chug sport replacement beverages from hard plastic containers, carry your milk home in a plastic gallon and even feed the baby her formula from a plastic ...

How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...

I know, know: you’re reading my headline with horror and shock, clutching your vacuum-insulated water bottle, shuddering with rage that one would even dare suggest that plastic water bottles could be ...

Reduce, reuse, and recycle has been a national mantra for decades. In an effort to shrink our collective carbon footprint, consumers often reuse plastic water bottles. But is this a safe practice? The ...