Someone gave my 3-year-old son a blanket as a gift. It wasn't the sort of thing I would normally buy - snow-white faux fur is sub-ideal for toddler purposes - but I hate to let things go to waste. I ...

Right now, more than 400 million tons of plastic are manufactured every year, and over 300 million tons of plastic waste created. Plastic production, use and disposal in the United States contributed ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... If someone told me 10 years ago that people would willingly pay over $5 for a one-gallon container of water, I would have scoffed. Yet here we are buying ...

In an effort to reduce plastic waste, Hoboken aims to ban restaurants from handing out single-use items, like plastic utensils and condiment packets, in deliveries unless a customer specifically ...

Today on DnA, oil, plastic and the stuff that surrounds us. As oil spills into the gulf, we examine our dependence on products derived from petrochemicals, with Chris Lefteri, Sara Banaszak, Carla ...