Change the way you buy and use plastic Archives | Page 10 of 85 | The Cool Down

A person carrying a cardboard Amazon Prime box.

Business

Retail worker processes 100 Amazon returns a day, and every one ends up in a plastic bag

A sea turtle swims near colorful corals, encountering a piece of plastic debris in the clear blue ocean.

Outdoors

Plastic bags can look and smell like food to sea turtles — and it can turn deadly

A tray with several blood sample tubes in a laboratory setting.

Tech

Women with more 'forever chemicals' in their blood may face higher odds of MS, study finds

Black Beach in Minnesota.

Outdoors

Minnesota photographer hopes 'she said no' after finding aftermath of beach proposal

A hedgehog sniffing around on a textured surface with remnants of food nearby.

Outdoors

Tangled in tape, wild hedgehog walks up to stranger in Dagestan, and waits to be freed

A stack of plastic food storage containers in various sizes and colors resting on a gas stovetop.

Home

She stopped buying paper towels, K-cups, and plastic containers — and saved $6,000

A hand holds a green lunchbox containing a sandwich, tomatoes, an orange, lettuce, and nuts.

Food

EU ban on BPA in cans, bottles, and lunch boxes starts next month

A hand reaches for a bag of red berries in a freezer filled with frozen food.

Home

One home cook trying to ditch kitchen plastic learns the hardest part is finding swaps that stick

A laboratory setting with a scientist in a mask working near a microscope and a white rat in a clear container.

Tech

Microplastics hit the liver hard on a high-fat diet, mouse study finds

An earthworm is crawling across soil.

Tech

Microplastics shortened worms' lives, disrupted reproduction, and carried toxins into their bodies

Aerial view of a river winding through sandy banks under a partly cloudy sky, surrounded by lush green hills.

Tech

Protected estuary in Spain had microplastic levels rivaling polluted European rivers

A close-up of two muffin trays with brown paper liners in one tray on a dark countertop.

Home

Redditor keeps thinking about buying ice trays until a cupcake pan makes bagged ice unnecessary