Recycling Empty Plastic Bottles

Thirsty? Ditch the Plastic Bottle With This Drinking Fountain App

Download WeTap to chart your city's drinking fountains—and help make them better.

How the plastic bottle went from miracle container to hated garbage

The evolution of the plastic bottle from amazing to scourge of land and sea has played out inside of a generation.

How an edible water bubble may replace plastic bottles

Ooho!, an new type of packaging, is a strong, biodegradable, and edible alternative made from seaweed.

Polar Seltzer demonstrates how to make a face shield from a plastic bottle

How a Seal Pup Died With a Plastic Wrapper in Its Stomach

A flimsy film of plastic clogged the sick pup’s intestines and could have catalyzed its death.

Millennials Are Embracing This Surprising (and Effective) Budgeting Strategy

What's Up With Everyone Plastic-Wrapping Their Luggage?

Tap, Bottled, or Filtered Water?

Water is an incredibly important aspect of our daily lives. We drink water, cook with water, bathe in water, and participate in many other activities involving water. Hydration • Roughly 70% of the adult body is made up of water. • How much water should you drink? It varies based …

Survival basics: What is the shelf life of bottled water?

Even when things are quiet, you need to make sure that your survival stockpile has everything you may need if SHTF. Do you have a case (or several cases) of bottled water in your stockpile?<br>If the answer is "yes," the next question you need to answer is: "What is the shelf life of

Innovations and Trends in Plastic Food Packaging

From plastic cans to new labeling techniques the latest trends in plastic food packaging support freshness, longer shelf life, and product branding and tracking.

Why Plastic is Actually Better Than Paper in Packaging.

In the world’s attempt of coming up with more environmentally friendly options, paper has gained popularity especially in the field of packaging and...

How Many Water Bottles Could a Filling Station Save?

Or, how long would it take to fill a swimming pool from a water fountain? Let's have fun with numbers!

Top Selling Recyclable Bags for Trade Show Marketing

Looking for recyclable bags? Find out how these top-selling recyclable bags can give your trade show marketing a boost.

What Do We Really Know About Our Bottled Water?

Is all water delivered equal? With new science coming out constantly, it’s nearly impossible to understand what information to trust and what water is safest to drink.

Sustainable, Recyclable and Reduced Packaging: What You Can Do to Help

In spite of the wackiness of planning corrugated boat races, fantasizing about taping co-workers to walls and all other kinds of mischief, the engineers at Ernest Packaging Solutions’ Innovation Lab take their jobs pretty seriously – particularly when it comes to sustainable packaging solutions.

Amazon: How to replace plastic in your order with paper

Online giant Amazon has launched a new eco-friendly option for shoppers to replace plastic with paper in their orders.

Why Bottles with Desiccant Outperform Foil-Foil Blister Packaging

While cold-form, foil-foil (aluminumaluminum) blister packaging is considered the most moisture-protective packaging available, in fact, plastic containers such as bottles and tubes, when combined with desiccants, such as silica gel canisters and packets, will often provide lower internal relative humidity for long time periods.

Flint's Next Issue: What to Do With Empty Water Bottles?

The temporary solution to the lead-tainted water emergency — using only bottled water — is creating yet another environmental crisis for Flint.