The plastic film around laundry detergent pods is supposed to be biodegradable. But typical wastewater-treatment plants don’t offer the optimal conditions for it to actually work; and the material, ...

Laundry is a way of life. But the copious amounts of plastic jugs that are mostly filled with water and never completely disappear from the planet doesn’t have to be. There’s a better way to do ...

Farmers on Western Australia's south coast are challenging the norm by selling blueberries in cardboard punnets instead of plastic. A similar concept has been trialled successfully across more than 30 ...