You ask, we answer! Viewer Question: When a store charges a fee for paper bags at checkout, where does that money go? New York State? charity or environmental ...

Lexington’s recycling center can not take plastic bags. The new effort will turn plastic bags collected into a bench for Lextran riders.

Instead of throwing away those plastic bags from the grocery store, discover how to turn them into both decorative and useful ...

I can not remember the last time I paid for a small sized garbage bag.” Woman reveals simple money-saving hack to repurpose plastic packaging: 'That's actually a good idea' first appeared on The Cool ...

The grocery aisle is a dizzying array of products ... aluminium cans and PET plastic bottles — to see just how much of each makes it through the system to begin a new life on supermarket shelves.

A beloved Upper West Side grocery store dramatically shut down Monday after inspectors allegedly found the shop crawling with vermin, its staff hawking 7-year-old expired cheese and rats nesting ...

which stemmed from the “Get Past Plastic Law,” barred grocery stores and most other kinds of stores in New Jersey from handing out single-use bags, be it paper or plastic, at the counter.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia grocery stores could be forced to do away with plastic shopping bags. House Bill 1662, introduced by Del. Michael Jones (D-Chesterfield), would make it illegal ...

If you’ve gone to your local grocery store for a carton of eggs lately and come home empty-handed, you’re not alone. The region’s grocery stores are scrambling ...

As a Reddit post on r/Anticonsumption shows, fresh bananas wrapped in additional plastic can be seen as pointless regulation and excessive packaging. The post shows a plastic-wrapped banana, with the ...

As a doctoral student, Kaner contributed to the discovery of electrically conductive plastic by his advisors Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger, who later received a Nobel Prize for their work. Other ...

A crocheter's handmade blanket gift results into a heated debate after her sister-in-law gives it back demanding perfection Ashley Vega is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...