Sustainability Pros Reveal 6 Easy Ways to Reduce the Plastic You Bring Home From Grocery Stores

Silicone food storage bags keep food fresher for longer while reducing the risk of plastic contamination in the kitchen.
Homes and Gardens on MSN

Cut shameful plastic use at the grocery store: Sustainability pros reveal 6 easy tips

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

The ‘recycled’ plastic in your shoes, shirts, and bags? It’s still destined for the landfill.

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

These Researchers Are Turning Plastic Waste Into Fuel

A research team has taken a commonly used catalyst in plastic hydrogenolysis and made it more porous, allowing the "reaction ...
The Gazette

Curious Iowa: What happens to recycled plastic bags?

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 — ...
Digital Journal

Technology vaporizes bags, yielding gases to make recycled plastics

Europe produced 58.8 million tonnes of plastics in 2022. — © AFP JOSH EDELSON Europe produced 58.8 million tonnes of plastics in 2022. — © AFP JOSH EDELSON ...
Los Angeles Times

Did California’s plastic bag ban make plastic waste a bigger problem?

It’s been 10 years since California became the first state to ban single-use plastic bags and in that time, plastic bag waste has increased by 47%. What happened? Let’s dig into this recent article ...
Do Good HQ on MSN

From Waste to Wow: 5 Stunning Recycled Purses That Make a Difference

Bags are used by almost everyone and almost every day. As a result, your bag or purse is a product that you probably want to ...
The Columbian

Washington’s bag ban, meant to reduce waste, hasn’t made much of a dent in discarded plastic

When Washington’s ban on single-use plastic bags went into effect in October 2021, the goal was to reduce plastic waste by changing shopping habits. Rather than walking out of the grocery store with a ...
OPB

California’s first plastic bag ban made things worse. Now it’s trying again

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 ...

As cost of grocery bags rises to 12 cents, WSU study finds bag fee is creating more plastic waste even as number of bags plummets

A recent Washington State University study suggests Villella may not be alone. While the cost of a reusable plastic bag will increase by 4 cents in the new year, the study calls into question the ...
The New York Times

Is Your Water Bottle Really Made From Recycled Plastic?

A green accounting method called “mass balance” certifies that something was manufactured with recycled plastic — just not necessarily much of the bottle making the claim. By Julie Creswell and Hiroko ...