This is a story of intentional littering involving 40 brightly colored plastic bottles in a North Carolina stream. But in ...

Sprite's green plastic bottles were already recyclable. But colored plastic bottles are typically separated from clear plastic bottles during the recycling process in order to keep the recycled ...

The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) explains that colored bottles may contain pigments that can cause contamination in the PET stream and as a result cannot be included with the transparent ...

Apothecary bottles go all the way back to the Roman era when they were used to store herbal extracts and oils.

and Sea to Summit bottles (right). Maria Adelmann/NYT Wirecutter Each sleek, cylindrical, uniformly colored plastic bottle features a squat top with a small pump mechanism. A hole at the bottom of ...

By Julie Creswell and Hiroko Tabuchi The plastic CamelBak bottles displayed in a Target ... like clamshell containers, colored plastics used in food and beverage packaging, and plastic fibers ...