We all consume milk, soft drinks, juice and water on a daily basis and throw the plastic away, without even thinking that once in the waste stream, it will end up on a landfill site. Now you can start ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Instead of being tossed in the trash, plastic bottle caps will soon be deployed in a pilot project in Canso, N.S., to help break ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. whitebalance.oatt / E+ via Getty Images Plastic bottles are the whack-a-moles of the real world. You recycle one and dozens more ...

The project 'Bottle Caps to Benches', has grown into an annual initiative that provides seating for schools and parks and ...

An epidemic of art grips Gainesville, and no cure is in sight. The city is decorated with murals depicting everything from pea pods in the depths of the southwest downtown parking garage to scenes ...

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Plastic bottles, on the other hand, are usually made from a different kind of plastic called polyethylene terepthalate, or number one and PET. And polypropylene, that number-five plastic bottle caps, ...

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