Reduce your footprint as you create delightful decor and helpful tools with these 10 clever plastic water bottle DIYs to try in the home and garden.

There's no better time to try your hand at lower-waste living than this month, during what the Plastic Free Foundation has dubbed "Plastic Free July." The challenge encourages consumers to refuse ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. whitebalance.oatt / E+ via Getty Images Plastic bottles are the whack-a-moles of the real world. You recycle one and dozens more ...

Gym clothes, water and shampoo bottles, facial scrubs, car interiors, to-go boxes — plastic is everywhere. It also inevitably ends up in the ocean: There are now several massive garbage patches ...

The one word of advice given to Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 movie “The Graduate” has certainly proven prophetic. The world is awash in plastic from bottles to bags, films to fiber and toys to textiles.