It's the height of summer, and for many Americans, that means scorching cars and forgotten plastic water bottles rolling around under the seats. But before you take a sip out of one of those, you ...

Leaving plastic water bottles in your car during summer is a bad idea—and not just because chemicals from the material can leach into your water when it gets too warm out. A plastic bottle of water ...

Studies show that leaving plastic water bottles in hot environments, like a car, causes them to release billions of microplastic particles and harmful chemicals into the water. Heat and UV exposure ...

Studies show that heat and UV exposure cause plastic bottles to shed billions of microscopic fragments, which end up in your drink. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades ...