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 ...

After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

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The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of products wrapped in colourful packaging specifically designed to catch your eye and convince you to buy them. But that packaging's story doesn't end once it's ...

“The hotter it gets, the more the stuff in plastic can move into food or drinking water.” Drinking from a single water bottle left in the hot sun won't hurt you, but experts say consumers should avoid ...

Decades ago, the only baby bottles you could buy were made of glass. But glass was heavy and breakable. So, when plastic bottles came along that were lighter and shatter-proof, the glass bottle became ...

The evolution of the plastic bottle from amazing to scourge of land and sea has played out inside of a generation. A million plastic beverage bottles were purchased each minute as of 2017. The plastic ...

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 ...