There's one big mistake that everyone makes when gluing PVC pipe. Before you start your next project, make sure you know what ...

Drive along the French Broad River from Asheville to Marshall, or even farther, and you’ll quickly notice a recurring sight ...

Sarah McGreevy (pictured), 37, fell over the balcony of her flat in Hackney, east London, after clambering onto a wooden box ...

Snap election before Trump sworn in would be best for Canada: ex-minister If a strike goes ahead, it’s not clear if the Liberal minority government will be able to impose a back-to-work ...

On a pristine beach in Gippsland, a team of scientists are dumping plastic rubbish. Their littering is extremely precise. When they're done, 14 squares of trash — each exactly 2 square metres ...

If you have a black spatula in your kitchen, or other black plastic items around your house like takeout containers or children’s toys, they could contain high levels of toxic flame retardants.

Los Angeles County announced Wednesday that it filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo and Coca-Cola for allegedly deceiving the public about the recyclability and environmental impact of their plastic ...

For a consumer, this problem would be simpler to handle if it was clear that only certain black plastic products posed a risk, or that all of them did. But Turner found that products were ...

Hoop houses are greenhouses made by covering a plastic or metal hoop structure with one layer (or sometimes two) of clear plastic. They are low-tech and low-cost compared with glass greenhouses.

Old water bottles, trash bags, straws, and countless other variations of plastic scrap litter the world’s beaches, eventually making their way into the ocean where they degrade over the course ...

Countries gathered in Colombia to work on a treaty to end plastic pollution must strive for “an ambitious, credible and just” deal that responds to the needs of communities everywhere, including some ...