Throwing your plastic bottles in the recycling bin may make you feel good about yourself, or ease your guilt about your ...

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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 — ...

Many places in the United States are phasing out single-use plastic shopping bags. Some stores like Kroger are replacing these bags with “recyclable” plastic bags in misguided attempts to be more ...

ShopRite is teaming up with Trenton-based recycling leader TerraCycle on a grocery store program for all brands of flexible plastic packaging. Under the recently launched partnership, dedicated kiosks ...

A proposal moving through the California legislature is putting the future of plastic shopping bags there into sharp focus: Should they be banned entirely, or should they be worked into new recycling ...

Shoppers in Washington will soon begin paying 4 cents more per plastic bag at grocery stores and other retailers. The price for plastic bags will increase to 12 cents a bag, plus tax, on Jan. 1, but t ...

Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce ...

That extra fee at the grocery store for a plastic shopping bag isn’t just an inconvenience –– it is actually making a difference for marine ecosystems, according to a new study. Policies that ban or ...