New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Green grocery bags can be hard to find, but you could sub the fused green plastic for pieces cut from coffee, pet food, or ...

1. Line Your Trash Bin. One of the easiest and (most useful) ways to reuse plastic grocery bags is to line your trash cans with them. While they won't fit large trash cans in the kitchen or garage ...

This car trash can has a removable waterproof liner, so if a bag breaks you can take out the liner, dump its contents, and hose it off. Attach the included bag hooks to the sides to hold grocery ...

“It virtually cut waste in half,” Rob Firlotte, Plympton’s highway superintendent, said of the results. In 2022, before the ...

California’s 2014 bag ban law focused on grocery stores, which can no longer give you one of those thin plastic bags. But they can sell you a heftier sack made of high-density polyethylene, or HDPE.

You might think you don’t need a car garbage can and that the plastic grocery bag hanging from your passenger seat headrest works well enough. I’m here to tell you you’re wrong.

Give single-use plastic bags a second life as packing material. Use this hack to transform them into packing bubbles, so you can save money and save them from the trash.

California’s ban on single-use plastic grocery bags worked. ... calculated that in 2014 California tossed about 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste into the trash. In 2022, plastic bags accounted ...

A new study looks how successful bans on single-use plastic bags are to cut down on pollution. Credit - Photo-Illustration by TIME (Source Image: Shana Novak—; natro ...

They say each makeshift sleeping bags takes roughly 700 grocery sacks and two garbage sacks. They say the tied grocery sacks create pockets of insulation and the garbage bags keep it waterproof.

“Even a slight reduction in grocery bag use can offset the increased plastic consumption from trash bags,” Che said, suggesting that there may be some benefit to these policies even when they ...