Seven states have adopted Extended Producer Responsibility laws to make companies pay for their plastic. One industry leader ...

For many, the biggest decision to make at the grocery story is the very last one — do you want your food packed in paper bags or plastic bags? The stores clearly would rather you go with plastic bags.

Plastic bins are easy to pack and stack, because they're usually all one size. However, their one-size-fits-all nature make them impractical for some irregular items. They usually have handles, unlike ...

Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any ...

Most moving boxes are recyclable, but it all depends on what the boxes are made of and what they contain. Clean (as in dry and not covered in food waste) cardboard moving boxes are recyclable as long ...

Paper or plastic — we all know the question. It conjures images of conveyor belts, sounds of beeps as items are scanned and maybe even smells of fresh mint as you wait in line near the packs of gum.

Tiernan Alexander (left) and Tim Eads, co-owners of Tuft the World, at their warehouse in Southwest Philly. (Sophia Schmidt/WHYY) If you’ve done a lot of your holiday shopping online, you may feel a ...

Ten years after the UK plastic bag levy transformed high street habits, fashion’s ecommerce boom has left online deliveries ...

A new report suggests Washington's 8-cent fee for "reusable" plastic bags isn’t covering the real cost — and the ...