Experts share considerations, risks and safer alternatives to protect your health and the environment.

Instead of tossing plastic bottles in the recycling bin, consider saving them to build a one-of-a-kind furniture piece that's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Food safety experts weigh in on whether you not you can reuse your plastic resealable bags. Lori Lee Miller / Getty Images Whether ...

A WWF report highlights the five most promising product groups for reuse and gives guidance on how reuse can effectively be integrated into the upcoming global plastic pollution treaty, unfolding its ...

Reusing plastic takeout containers might seem eco-friendly, but experts say some plastics can degrade with heat and time, releasing microplastics into food. Labels like "microwave-safe" and ...

Single-use plastic is a plague upon the Earth that the more environmentally conscious among us try in vain to avoid. No matter how careful you are to bring your reuseable tote and buy stuff in ...

Cabbage leaves covered in frost in the garden - Ulrike Leone/Getty Images Gardeners are the great tenders of earth, so it's really no surprise to find that many of them are reusing plastic containers ...

Single-use plastics are a major environmental concern, but now, rather than being disposed of as garbage, used plastic bags from the grocery store could be utilized to carry out a reaction that can ...

Single-use plastic is nearly impossible to avoid entirely, but small, practical changes can significantly reduce the amount ...

The artists Beverly Barkat and Germane Barnes play with discarded plastic — including bottles, cups and printer cartridges — to explore the possibilities of reinventing waste. By James Barron Good ...