Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A black box with a black Chipotle logo on its lid, opened to show 53 black forks on their sides, with two cards for free food in ...

Rows of plastic forks in the garden are trending this March, but do they truly protect seedlings or quietly damage soil and wildlife instead?

Moreover, plastic doesn’t degrade like natural materials. Over time, as forks break down, tiny microplastics can leach into ...

In the 1967 movie The Graduate, a baffled Dustin Hoffman is given just one word about his future from a family friend: “Plastics.” He doesn’t go with it, which may be just as well. Plastics, which ...

This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Whether for stabbing salads at our desks or slurping up late-night Thai, plastic ...

The British government is continuing its long, fruitless war on single-use plastics with the announcement that it will be prohibiting plastic plates and cutlery in England. "A plastic fork can take ...

The average plastic fork or spoon might have a usable life of 10 minutes while you’re eating lunch–or even less, if you get a set of unwanted cutlery with your takeout and end up tossing it straight ...

Some people want to take fossil fuel out of cars. Frederic Scheer is taking it out of picnicware. Scheer, CEO of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Cereplast, says his company has come up with a way to ...

If beaches could talk, they might be urging people to stop using plastic forks, knives and spoons. For the first time since the Ocean Conservancy began keeping track, plastic cutlery is showing up on ...