STORY: This might appear to be your typical bowl of vanilla ice cream… but it is in fact made from plastic waste. The ice cream was developed by Eleonora Ortolani, an artist and designer who wants to ...

LONDON (Reuters/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - The world’s first food made from plastic waste, according to its developer, is vanilla ice cream. Despite being locked in a freezer in London she hopes it ...

Can’t find your twine to bundle that pile of recyclables? Try reader Norm Hoch’s slick solution to reuse your plastic bottles ...

A typical water dispenser might be topped with a heavy jug made of thick plastic. But this revolutionary new dispenser from Evian uses a thin water-filled “bubble” instead. The unique design means ...

Reduce, reuse, and recycle has been a national mantra for decades. In an effort to shrink our collective carbon footprint, consumers often reuse plastic water bottles. But is this a safe practice? The ...

WAYNE, Neb. (KTIV) - One second-grade teacher in Wayne, Nebraska brought a whole new meaning to”cool” in the classroom. Mike Jaixen, a second-grade teacher at Wayne Elementary School, recycled 1,000 ...

A campaign that launched Thursday aims to get more consumers to recycle plastic milk jugs, some of them from Modesto-area dairy plants. The California Milk Advisory Board, based in Tracy, partnered on ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) – Just about every plastic milk jug ...

How Are Plastic Bottles Made? Plastics are made from oil or natural gas, which are made of molecules called hydrocarbons. When you heat hydrocarbons to very high temperatures, they break down into ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — Just about every plastic milk ...

(KTXL) – Just about every plastic milk jug has a circular indent on its side, but why? Is it just decoration? Does it help determine expiration? Some people may not have ever noticed it. “Most people ...