There is a growing awareness about the negative effects. Lawmakers move forward on bill banning common grocery store item: ...

A man has taken to social media to share his surprise after a note from the council was stuck to his recycling bin while out ...

Store garbage cans out of the squirrels' reach in a garage or shed.Opt for lidded garbage cans or ones made of metal, and weigh down the bottom to prevent squirrels from knocking them over.Clean ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's shorelines, the study found.

Despite lingering concerns from city officials, Elkins City Council approved the final reading of an ordinance that would establish a limit on the number of garbage bags that city sanitation services ...

2020 Ohio: Gov. DeWine, state legislators preempt plastic bag bans for a year. On October 13, 2020, Gov. Mike DeWine (R) signed HB 242, which preempted "the authority to use an auxiliary container, to ...

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

The separate trash can makes it easy on trash day. Second, when you empty the dishwasher, always start with emptying the bottom shelf, then work your way to the top.

The plastic from NOVA can be used to make everything from frozen food bags to trash liners, to plastic decking. Creating that demand for recycled plastic film has been an issue for a while. Diego ...

How does garbage shape our world? That’s the driving question behind “Castaway: The Afterlife of Plastic,” on view at Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology in ...

Authorities in Westchester County are investigating the suspicious death of a dog found dumped in a contractor-style garbage bag near a public lake, police said. The grim discovery was made around ...