Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Welcome to Sustainability with Sarah! I’m the climate change and environmental reporter for The Greenville News, covering issues ...

In Seattle, as in most cities around the country, there are a number of items that you aren’t supposed to put in the curbside recycling bin: bubble wrap, for instance, or multilayer plastic packaging ...

The New York-based bag brand Dagne Dover is the brainchild of three friends—Melissa Mash, Deepa Gandhi, and Jessy Dover—who all had fashion industry experience and were hard-pressed to find bags that ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Plastic trash is a problem. In the USA, each person produces an average of 100kg of plastic waste per year. Single-use plastics like drink ...

The city of Merriam is one of the latest local beneficiaries of a program in which plastic bags are recycled as free park benches. To make it happen, the city collected about 1,000 pounds of plastic ...

Walk into any of the stores operated by the four major supermarket chains serving the Boise area, and near an entrance you’ll find a bin inviting you to drop off plastic store bags and other soft ...

PARIS — Paris-based purpose-driven accessories label Rivedroite is launching a new line of bags made from 100 percent recycled beach plastic, as the brand expands its focus on circularity and ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

Editor's note: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that residents could bring No. 7 plastics to the city's recycling drop-off center on Mt. Wayte Street. That is not the case.

Welcome to Sustainability with Sarah! I’m the climate change and environmental reporter for The Greenville News, covering issues and solutions across the Upstate. In this weekly column, I will answer ...