Assemblymember Mark Stone, a democrat representing the 29th California Assembly District, has reintroduced legislation to require plastic bottle caps to be tethered to their beverage containers. By ...

There’s an astonishing amount of plastic bottle caps in the oceans. Now a breakthrough biopolymer cap has the potential to address the problem. Beyond Plastic introduces what it claims is the ...

In Stamford, Connecticut, nonprofit organization SoundWaters has empowered students to lead the charge against plastic pollution by recycling bottle caps. Started in 2019 by SoundWaters, the One ...

A large segment of the beverage industry went to tethered caps decades ago following public outcry about shrapnel-like aluminum pull tabs from beer and soda cans posing health and ecological risks.

If you're old enough, you remember the litter-prone, pull-off metal tabs on aluminum cans. And you probably recall when they were replaced by the push-down versions that stay attached to the can. Now, ...