Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

Silicone food storage bags keep food fresher for longer while reducing the risk of plastic contamination in the kitchen.

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Buncombe County residents use an astounding number of single-use plastic bags every year — 130 million, by one estimate — and, despite being recyclable, nearly all end up in landfills where they ...

A practical guide from sustainability experts on reducing plastic at the grocery store and going zero waste at home.

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The fight to reduce plastic waste may not be delivered as promised, with plastic bags dropped off at grocery stores across the area to be recycled, instead ending up in landfills ...

The national plastic bag recycling directory website is now disabled. The CEO of the company that manages the site told ABC News the decision to get rid of the resource was partially because of a lack ...

A group of students at Avon High School are working alongside the Lorain County Solid Waste Management District to collect as ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

Plastic is fed into a shredder before being ground down into smaller pieces and melted, on Feb. 22 at Plastic Recycling of Iowa Falls in Iowa Falls. The company uses recycled plastic material — ...