Everything prepackaged was in plastic, but the man behind the glass kindly agreed to wrap two hamburger patties and some chicken, separately, in butcher paper. Together they were $21.62.

Still, it’s not as if paper straws are a 21st-century solution. They were actually patented before plastic straws – before plastic even existed as a mass-market material – by American Marvin ...

It’s hard to escape the fact that plastic materials are by and large detrimental to the environment. You’ve probably seen images of plastic pollution washing up on beaches, spoiling rivers and ...

But Costco’s attempt to save money by doing away with the hard plastic containers is causing unwanted consequences. “These new bags leak!!” a Costco customer wrote on Reddit earlier this month.

They’re grasping for straws. Devout paper straw enthusiasts are speaking out as public opinion about the environmentally friendly sipper shifts to favor plastic. Last month, President Donald ...

“Plastic baggies or saran wrap … will suffocate your cheese and mold it within days,” Nicolle Laviolette, the owner and creator of ConVino Board, said in a 2022 TikTok.

More information: Yoko Iwamiya et al, Photocatalytic Silica–Resin Coating for Environmental Protection of Paper as a Plastic Substitute, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research (2022).

In the first category of stores, where paper bags are hard to find, most shoppers chose plastic. And by most, that means nearly 96% of more than 1,100 people.

Photocatalytic Silica–Resin Coating for Environmental Protection of Paper as a Plastic Substitute. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2022; DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.2c00784 ...