As communities continue to celebrate Earth Day, a growing number of consumers are looking for simple ways to cut down on ...

Black plastic containers: These are another popular choice for restaurants and while they are often made from recycled ...

I’ve been wanting to cut down on plastic use in my daily life for a long time now. Not only is it wasteful — most plastic will stick around for hundreds and even thousands of years — but there have ...

Every hour, 2.5 million plastic bottles are thrown away in the United States. While many of us justify drinking from plastic bottles or buying our food in plastic containers by telling ourselves it's ...

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Reusing plastic containers from food delivery seems like an easy way to reduce waste and save money, but this common practice raises an important question about what happens when that plastic is ...

It's just wrong to have shopping carts full of plastic. We can and must do a better job of ending our addiction to plastic.

Americans, on average, toss out about three quarters of a pound of plastic each day, according to researchers at Oxford University. Most of that trash winds up in a landfill. As someone who loves ...

Confused over what plastics you can recycle? There’s reasons for that. And our local waste stream, with an upgraded Santa ...