Plastic bags can’t go in household recycling bins – here’s what to do instead - In 2018 alone, over 3 million tons (2.7 ...

Soft, stretchy plastics like bubble wrap and bread bags are impossible to avoid and harder still to dispose of.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The world is drowning in plastic. Producers are peddling a “solution” that is more like an illusion. Is there anything more pathetic than a used plastic bag? But the plastics industry is working to ...

Buncombe County residents use an astounding number of single-use plastic bags every year — 130 million, by one estimate — and, despite being recyclable, nearly all end up in landfills where they ...

Most people recycle with the best intentions. They rinse containers, flatten boxes, and sort plastics carefully – and then, ...

The Plastic Reduction Alliance played a game of “Is it recyclable?” Wednesday night. “For the longest time, I thought any plastics I take into my home, I just take to the plastics recycling facility ...

A coalition of New York businesses are warning that a plan to tighten rules for paper and package recycling will threaten ...

Apparently it might not have been the last straw. Or plastic bag, for that matter. Just months away from New Jersey reaching three years of banning single-use plastic bags in most stores and paper ...

Muriel Williman, senior assistant solid waste manager for disposal with the City of Durham, wants Durhamites to be more careful about what they put in the recycling bin. Credit: Photo by Lena Nguyen — ...