When I was growing up, my grandparents had a few tried-and-true kitchen utensils that would constantly be used on rotation,including the common black plastic utensils that—more often than not—take up ...

Once the plastic packaging leaves your hands, where does it go? Only 9 per cent ends up in a recycling facility… Eight billion tonnes. That’s the amount of plastic the UN estimates has been produced ...

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Plastic pollution is one of the biggest sources of waste in our everyday lives, which is why so many companies and consumers are trying to transition away from single-use plastic items. That includes ...

After two years of talks, we are closer to securing a treaty for the ages. One that hits the problem of plastic pollution hard and protects human, planetary and economic health. A high degree of ...

ABC Science took three packaging products that are common and relatively easy to recycle — glass bottles, aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through ...

A growing pool of studies finds concerning levels of plastic and forever chemicals in our common food items and their packaging. Here’s what you need to know. Chick fil-A used to be my guilty ...

Now, thanks to a new study about the plastic chemicals found in food packaging, that sandwich is dead to me. A team of scientists and concerned citizens recently tested more than 300 unique foods ...

Coles, Woolworths and Aldi were partners of REDcycle, which, at its peak, was collecting millions of pieces of soft plastic every day from shoppers at 2000 supermarkets across Australia. The plastic ...