Flexibles plastics, like grocery bags, are complex so that they can perform their intended function, which can make them difficult to recycle through traditional means. Advanced recycling technologies ...

Prevent a mess of plastic bags under the sink by using these expert organizing hacks. Getty Images / SDI Productions Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid ...

You might think you are doing the right thing by recycling plastic grocery bags but they are actually causing big problems at recycling centers. Plus, it could wind up costing you. Mercedes Millan's ...

I keep finding plastic bottles and newspapers in the grocery store’s recycling bin — that isn’t what they recycle. In fact, the garbage man will just throw the bags you put outside your house in your ...

Except for the totally news-isolated among us, we know that larger grocery stores are supposed to have receptacles for depositing clean plastic grocery bags. I've seen the receptacles while shopping ...

“Paper or plastic?” Your days are numbered. The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the past. On ...

The Very Rev. Zbigniew Dawid, pastor of Holy Mother of Sorrows, with some of the blankets that were made from plastic bags. (SUBMITTED PHOTO) From left, are Max, Stephanie and Ben Shupp on the bench ...

A bill that would require retail stores in the state of California to establish store recycling programs was passed by the California State Senate, and now goes to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for ...