If you're like most people, your recycling bin holds plenty of empty plastic bottles. But before you toss another bottle on the pile, consider this: You can use those 2-liter soda bottles, ...

You might get eco-guilt when you toss a plastic bottle into the recycling bin. Will the material from the container really be used to make something new? The answer to that question is unclear.

Outside a Savannah, Georgia, apartment building on a recent evening, next to a food truck serving up po’boys, is a small box truck emblazoned with green leaves. Inside are wooden shelves of reusable ...

In the comments, a number of users were impressed. Woman reveals her dad's clever trick for reusing empty prescription pill ...

A video posted last week by Quantum Tech racked up nearly 100,000 views in less than 24 hours on YouTube. What drew so much attention? The “Brilliant Ideas with Plastic Bottles” video, with a tagline ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Many Germantown residents may find themselves with an excess of plastic water bottles after the city's water was deemed unsafe for more than a week. While the city of Germantown does recycle most ...

Dear Dr. Blonz: I have heard that harmful changes can occur in water bottle plastic during heating in a microwave. While I don't microwave these bottles, I have been opting to reuse them after washing ...

Researchers create supercapacitors from waste PET plastic bottles that could power electric vehicles and electronics within 5 ...