"I believe our city should be doing everything it can to reduce plastic waste, not encourage it, and certainly not mandate it," says the letter writer.

About 25,000 more households are now able to recycle plastic bags and wrapping through kerbside collections. It comes after ...

A reader asked Public Investigator to find out if Kroger — operator of Pick 'n Save and Metro Market — was ditching plastic ...

Koyambedu Wholesale Market in Chennai bustles with activity, despite a ban on single-use plastics in Tamil Nadu.

Dog poop bags are an essential for any dog walk, so we put eight brands through tests that evaluated durability, size and ...

Most wrapping paper, gift bags and gift boxes are on a one-way trip to the landfill, according to Kelly Draeger of the Otsego ...

If the recycling isn’t set out properly, residents will receive a citation from the city. They’ll have 24 hours to remove ...

Do you want to go back to the days of having to sterilize glass bottles in emergency rooms? Plastic does more good than harm.

Montgomery County’s Department of Environmental Protection and Prince George’s County’s Department of the Environment explain ...

What can I recycle in Corpus Christi, what is contamination and how do citations work? See answers to those questions and ...

Plastic bags create a massive amount of waste, as most of them aren't recycled. According to an Environmental Protection Agency report from 2018, the U.S. generated 4.2 million tons of plastic ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Michigan isn’t yet a national leader in recycling but it’s making steady progress, thanks in part to grants ...