The material makes up one-use plastic bottles, the type that house soda and water at baseball games and music festivals, for example. PET is recyclable, but most of it ends up in the trash.

Last month, a representative authored a bill banning the sale of single-use plastic bottles—specifically, those holding under two liters of water.

Most plastic bottles on Latin America’s Pacific beaches are locally made, mainly from Coca-Cola, Aje Group, and PepsiCo.

What makes small bottles so bad, he says, is to do with their design. “Every bottle needs a certain amount of plastic for the neck and lid, and that amount is somewhat constant regardless of the ...

The Small Plastic Bottle Act, signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in August 2025, stipulates that Illinois hotels with 50 rooms or more cannot provide single-use plastic bottles containing personal care ...

As the small plastic bottles containing inexpensive booze have grown in popularity, they've become a common source of litter and outrage.

Only about six percent of the plastic—everything from plastic bottles to IV drips—produced in the U.S. in 2021 was recycled, according to a Greenpeace report.

The Small Single-Use Plastic Bottle Act, signed by Gov. JB Pritzker last month, will ban hotels from giving out small single-use plastic bottles containing personal care products. The law aims to ...