Even if you use reusable shopping bags, there's a good chance you have some plastic grocery bags somewhere in your home. In ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

Plastic is everywhere, and most of it ends up in landfills or incinerated because recycling is excruciatingly difficult to do. Yet companies that rely on plastics production, including oil giant ...

Recycling bags in Mecklenburg County is a little different after county leaders took action in response to a Channel 9 ...

It’s time for some trash talk. That’s because some Lake County communities are beginning a new program impacting garbage collections. The Hefty ReNew program kicking off in October will be giving ...

It's Earth Week, here's how consumers and companies are trying to improve waste management across the country.

Recycling single use plastic grocery bags into bricks and other sustainable materials could reduce pollution along highways and landfills, according to a former New Mexican who views environment ...

Since California adopted the nation's first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014, most grocery stores have turned to thicker, reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be recyclable.But ...

California's new plastic bag law went into effect on January 1. It forbids any business from giving away or selling plastic bags, even those deemed "recyclable." We found no shortage of those ...