When I visited my friend in Scotland, I was amazed to see how little waste from her family of four actually went into the garbage can. Besides their good habits of buying items with minimal packaging, ...

Texas voters will face 17 proposed constitutional amendments on their ballots next Tuesday, including Proposition 15, a shortly-worded and somewhat vague proposal that affirms that "parents are the ...

While it’s generally OK to store food in plastic containers labeled with a 1, 2, 4, or 5, you should try to use glass. Plastic marked with a 3, 6, and 7 should be used minimally around food to limit ...

Only 4.7% of plastic produced by U.S. households in 2021 was recycled, according to a Greenpeace USA report. But that's not for lack of consumer participation. Greenpeace said most plastics simply ...

(Reuters) - California's lawsuit on Monday accusing Exxon of fueling global plastic waste pollution by misleading the public about the limitations of recycling is the latest in a line of recent cases ...