Use your extra trash bags as 5-gallon bucket liners to make a 5-gallon paint bucket. This tip is especially helpful when ...

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.

Trader Joe's has been selling reusable bags since 1977, but it's only in recent years that they have become a fashion accessory both at home and in Japan.

Oregon Senate Bill 551, sponsored by Democrat Janeen Sollman of Hillsboro, would phase out all plastic checkout bags -- ...

Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal thrown in the trash makes one waste expert “weak in the knees.” ...

PolyCycl launches Contiflow Cracker Generation VI technology for chemical recycling, addressing India's plastic waste problem with innovation.

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

A temporary ban on plastic bags used to carry groceries and other items purchased at stores throughout Carlsbad is set to go ...

By collecting 1,000 pounds of plastic bags and other materials, Middleton can earn a community bench made from recycled ...