More Alabama schools are adding rules for another piece of many children’s school supplies: Water bottles. Trussville City ...

The Food and Drug Administration says that the current use of BPA and certain phthalates in food packaging is safe. But some ...

Water bottles a new status symbol for students? Sales say yes. In the 80s, it was Air Jordans and Jordache jeans. In the 90s, it was baggy JNCOs and Tommy Hilfiger.

That means a single-use plastic water bottle sheds micro- and nanoplastics into your water when you refill it, and a takeout container or frozen meal tray sheds these particles into your food.

The University of Colorado Boulder announced has begun eliminating all single-use plastics from its campus beverage services as of July 7.

These bottles only take two to five years to decompose, while plastic bottles take over 450 years, the students told Callaway. “We’ve been looking at that, we’ve tried it,” Callaway said ...

The plastic CamelBak bottles displayed in a Target in East Hanover, N.J., offer a promise to ecologically conscious buyers. On the front of each is a bright blue sticker with the words “Tritan ...