Chicago Tribune

Water in aluminum bottles. Straw-less lids. Reusable cups. As plastic waste concerns grow, the search for sustainable packaging has gone mainstream.

Nicole Doucet and Jess Page were met with skepticism when they first tried to persuade retailers to sell their brand of bottled water. Consumers, the young entrepreneurs were told during those early ...
AOL

Blue Bottle Coffee has done away with plastic cups at all its stores

Amid the ongoing plastic-straw backlash that reached a fever pitch in 2018, many companies have ditched or pledged to ditch single-use plastic straws, including Starbucks, Hyatt, and American Airlines ...
WebMD

Is It Safe to Reuse Plastic Water Bottles?

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 ...
Business Wire

Breakthrough Technology Takes Plastic From the Ocean and Uses It in a Coca-Cola Bottle

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Coca-Cola Company unveiled its first-ever sample bottles made using recovered and recycled marine plastics, demonstrating that, one day, even ocean debris could be ...
SanLuisObispo

SLO rolls out restrictions on plastic bottles, cups and straws

Under a new San Luis Obispo ordinance taking effect Thursday, customers must request straws or get them from dispensaries like this one at Woodstock’s. Joe Johnston jjohnston@thetribunenews.com San ...