Plastic

The beverage giant will test selling cans at restaurants before putting them on supermarket shelves.

On International Record Store Day, mom and pop shops try to tempt music-lovers to their stores in an age when most people stream songs online. 

Once touted as an indestructible magic material, plastics have proven they are, indeed, long lasting - often ending up in our oceans, polluting reefs and killing wildlife. Here's how to help while you travel.

"At restaurant tonight waitress asks if we want straws. Says she has to ask now in fear of THE STRAW POLICE," Nunes tweeted to his 380,000 followers.

These microplastics cause huge problems for marine life and can be colonized by microbes dangerous to humans.

Richard Branson and Fabien Cousteau dove to the bottom of the Blue Hole in December.

Police arrested the woman for armed robbery and aggravated assault.

If someone could collect and recycle all the unrecycled plastic on earth, they would be the richest person on the planet.

"It undoes all our hard work and proves once again that we are using plastic with our eyes closed," author Martin Dorey said.

The woman's family is hoping to transfer her to a hospital in Dallas for a second opinion.

She thought the cow was a sheet of plastic but then realized it had "four legs and was mooing."

Rather than wasting plastics, cold plasma pyrolysis can be used to recover valuable materials, which can be sent directly back into industry.

On average, researchers found 40 pieces of plastic in adult mosquitoes.

It's not uncommon to find stranded dead turtles with guts full of plastic.

Brazilian butt lift procedures have doubled in the past half a decade despite the potentially deadly consequences.

Billions of contact lenses are washed into the U.S. water system each year, report finds.

The body modifier responsible for the work has been arrested.

The gases are warming the atmosphere.

It gives us that little surge of do-gooderism, with little actual sacrifice.

The new material could also keep food fresher.

Grocery store employees are dealing with verbal and physical abuse.

About 70 percent of the world is covered by oceans.

The cremated remains were being stored in the car.

"Boy, what an advance it would be to be able to see the world in a snapshot."

Marine plastic debris is estimated to reach 250 million tons by 2025.

This dynamic duo is another deadly threat to coral reefs. But people can do something about it.

The new method offers a way to recycle one of the leading greenhouse gases responsible for climate change.

Plastic may be causing problems for polar bears. But is this one of them?

A wildlife photo depicts the tragedy of man-made garbage meeting the natural world.

It's a recycler and 3D printer in one.