Sandra Pascoe Ortiz uses juice from the prickly pear cactus to make plastic. Plastic is everywhere — the average American consumes 70,000 pieces of plastic per year, according to the American Chemical ...

America generates almost 38 million tons of plastic waste every year, ranking second only to China. That’s a lot of plastic, and despite decades of recycling efforts, the bulk of it winds up in ...

Q: Are there any health benefits in cactus juice? A: Perhaps it’s those forbidding spiny barbs, but cactus, a centuries-old staple in Latin cuisine and available in the produce section of many ...

Engineers figured out a way to cut down on the amount of single-use plastics clogging our landfills and polluting the oceans — replacing them with a material made from prickly pear cactus. The new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the business of food, from artichokes to zucchini. In 2016, alcoholic soft drinks like root beer gained in popularity, as ...

Shoppers are drowning in a tidal wave of new waters tapped from super foods like cactus, birch, aloe — and even artichoke. The all-natural elixirs, which pack plant-based antioxidants and electrolytes ...

Maple water. Cactus water. Aloe water. Artichoke water? In the race to become the next Vita Coco, waters are getting weird. When Matt McKee and Melissa Reed launched CaliWater in January, they ...

This Mexican Cactus Green Juice (also known as licuado de nopal or mexican jugo verde). Packed with vibrant ingredients like ...

(NEW YORK) — Plastic is everywhere — the average American consumes 70,000 pieces of plastic per year, according to the American Chemical Society. The reality is that most plastic doesn’t wind up ...

Perhaps it’s those forbidding spiny barbs, but cactus, a centuries-old staple in Latin cuisine and available in the produce section of many supermarkets, has yet to go mainstream in this country. But ...