What's with maple syrup bottles and those tiny, sub-functional handles? Before plastic was the dominant food packing material ...

So the tiny, useless handles on pure maple syrup bottles that we associate with the product are likely only there due to the nostalgia of people in the 1930s for larger, obsolete jugs.

The most widely accepted explanation is that the tiny handle is a skeuomorph, meaning “an ornament or design representing a utensil or implement,” per Merriam-Webster. In other words, a given ...

One of the largest single-use plastic categories is for water bottles. Americans purchase around 50 billion of these bottles every year – 151 per person! World-wide it is estimated that 583 ...

These products are normally sold or delivered in single use plastic bottles. It is estimated that more than 190 billion single use plastic bottles of over-the-counter remedies were sold last year.

And these are just the bits of it we can see. Plastic has become a vital part of our lives of convenience. Yet the coffee cup lids, water bottles and bags we use once and throw away do end up ...

For instance, there is an infamous email circulating saying that leaving plastic water bottles in the sun can cause chemicals to leach into the water causing cancer, and sometimes even cites a ...

Planet or Plastic? is National Geographic’s multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic trash crisis. Come to this page often to learn more, and find out what you can do to ...

Quebec and Vermont are their nations’ respective champions of maple-syrup making. It isn’t a fair fight. Vermont, about 9,600 square miles, has maple as the “official state flavor” and ...

Crystallization is something that happens naturally with different grades of maple syrup, too. So, keep the following tips ... This works with both glass jars and plastic bottles.” Using Dooner’s ...

Recycling plastic into filament normally involves chopping it into tiny pieces and pushing it through a screw extruder. [JRT3D] is taking a different approach with PetBot, which cuts PET bottles ...