Bags made from biodegradable materials for collecting organic household waste have been available on the market for several years. Now researchers in a large-scale pilot study have conducted an ...

The Progressive Bag Affiliates has launched an initiative to promote bag recycling throughout the nation. Several of the country's biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags ...

It seemed like a straightforward question to biology professor Paul Mensink: Are plastic bags that hold curbside recyclables better or worse for the environment than blue boxes? But the question has ...

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has filed a lawsuit against the maker of Hefty trash bags, accusing the company of misrepresenting its bags as recyclable. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has ...

Recycling single-use plastic bags is old news to consumers and retailers using store drop-off for high- and low-density polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE) bags and PE films, but we haven’t heard much about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to Sustainability with Sarah! I’m the climate change and environmental reporter for The Greenville News, covering issues ...

Commentary: If you throw that box in the recycling bin, it’s essentially a coin flip on if it will be recycled. It could be, ...

Here are the facts about how to recycle greasy pizza boxes and plastic bags in Outagamie, Brown and Winnebago counties. Only ...

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 ...