Public Works General Manager. “With a reusable container, there’s a savings for residents in the long run since they don’t have to continually purchase plastic bags for weekly yard waste ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Paper bags would return to grocery stores in New Jersey were he elected governor, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer told NJ Advance ...

Zeoli, the deputy commissioner of Albany’s Department of General ... hard plastic containers like soda bottles and milk jugs can be recycled; but flimsier items like plastic bags, straws and ...

Along the way, he discovered a multibillion dollar trash trade run by shady waste brokers, and a global industry powered by slimy spoons, crinkled plastic bags, and all the other stuff we throw away.

The muse of American Beauty, Katy Perry and bathroom trash cans everywhere just won’t go away. Credit... Supported by By Danielle Kaye Photographs and Video by Brian Karlsson Since New York’s ...

Six years after Maine banned plastic retail bags, the Legislature is consider a slew of bills to strengthen the law, or ...

Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 1.33 billion pounds (602,000 metric tonnes) of plastic waste entering the ...