Coffee and tea stains often don't come ... the more susceptible it is to absorbing liquids and staining. Plastic, earthenware and stone cups or mugs are generally considered more porous.

Watch the CBS Reports documentary, "Advanced Recycling: Does Big Plastic's Idea Work?" in the video player above. HOUSTON, Tex.—When the news crew showed up outside a waste-handling business ...

T here's a running joke in my family that centers around my older sister's absolute refusal to use a cup with ingrained coffee stains. Even though a cup has clearly been washed th ...

One of the best bean-to-cup coffee machines is what you need if you want a cup of quality coffee with minimal effort. These full-featured appliances will do everything for you: grind the beans ...

This device comes in either plastic or stainless ... drinking directly from the device. Bodum is a widely trusted brand for all things coffee and tea—from mugs to grinders to scales.

The Bodum Brazil is our favorite budget French press coffee maker and is essentially the same as the Chambord, but with a more durable, plastic beaker. For more brewers that passed our tests ...

Despite the planet’s growing plastic pollution crisis, petroleum-based polymers have become an integral part of modern life. They make cars and airplanes lighter and more energy efficient.

A study published in Nature Chemical Biology leverages the natural resilience of spores, which can endure extreme environmental conditions, by programming them to secrete plastic-degrading enzymes ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

The Bodum Columbia ... a cleaner cup of coffee, free from sediment and grit. The downside to having two filters is that there is double the amount of washing, though it's a small price to pay for ...

VANCOUVER — When food safety researcher Tianxi Yang became a mother, she wondered how much microplastic her son would ingest when drinking milk out of widely available plastic containers.