It's not your imagination: Beverage containers for milk, soda and water have gotten harder to open in recent years because their plastic screw top caps have been shortened to save plastic. It's a ...

Environmentally-conscious area residents can ring in the new year with new ways to recycle. Grease-stained pizza boxes and plastic bottle caps, which we previously were unable to recycle, can now be ...

SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - Polar Water Distributor, a Singapore-based food service distribution company, has gone for fully recyclable packaging over plastic bottles for its new drink in its ...

Q: Dear Ask Us Guy, We are avid recyclers and composters in our household. (Thanks to the city of Mankato for re-instituting the composting program! No more of our food waste in the landfills or into ...

Yet another familiar school-days object may be going the way of the inkwell and the slide rule. Encouraged by a milk industry study that shows children drink more dairy when it comes in round plastic ...

Plastic spouts for cardboard milk and juice cartons were first introduced in 1990. The Spout-Pak was a product of International Paper, which made milk cartons, a market that was steadily eroding as ...