How should you feel about those bioplastic takeout cups?
Polylactic acid (PLA) containers like coffee cups and straws offer a compostable alternative to standard plastics. But they're not without challenges. Here's what you need to know about them.
All the plastic you cannot see
It's not easy to figure out what's hiding in the stuff you buy online—like the PVA in your 'nonplastic' laundry sheets. So we built a tool to help.
Why are plastic products always cheaper—or are they?
Nonplastic alternatives and other sustainable consumer products are assumed to be the more expensive option at the check-out aisle. But is that true? Why? And what are we really paying for?
What happens to the plastic we throw away?
By now it should come as no surprise that so much of what we consume and discard never makes it to a recycling facility or some other sustainable waste processing stream. So where does it end up?
In pursuit of a more plastic-free world
Plastic pollution is an ecological disaster in slow motion. The scale is both global and minute—universal and personal. While solving it all at once is an impossible, each of us can take meaningful action every day.