For over 70 years, billions of plastic pens have been tossed aside, leaving a toxic legacy of microplastics. At Tom's Studio, waste isn't the end of the story – it's just the beginning.

Open Culture's retrospective of one of the world's most successful consumer products opens with a reminder that you don't ...

Image Brian Brandell, a biomedical engineer, is trying to do something about plastic waste from discarded single-use injector pens.Credit...Tojo Andrianarivo for The New York Times But more ...

A group of Bengalureans have started a campaign to collect single-use plastic pens from colleges and send them to respective manufacturers in a bid to hold them accountable for their Extended ...

“The earlier versions of the pen had a ribbed barrel, which provided a better grip for the smooth plastic cap, exactly as Mr. Nader recalled. Furthermore, the company has moved from using white ...

Prefilled pens offer convenience compared to using a syringe, and may be for those who don’t choose to wear an insulin pump device. Plastic, prefilled insulin pens are an option that makes ...

Doctors at KIMS Hospital, Kondapur in Hyderabad successfully removed a plastic pen cap that had remained lodged in a man’s lungs for 21 years. The 26-year-old patient from Karimnagar had ...