Lexington’s recycling center can not take plastic bags. The new effort will turn plastic bags collected into a bench for Lextran riders.

Residents can bring their plastic bags, produce bags and other plastic film to drop-off locations throughout Lexington until ...

President Donald Trump says he is banning federal use of paper straws, saying they "don't work" and don't last very long.

I go to the local dollar store and pick up a small plastic tub (any shape), or I’ll get a non-collapsible step stool and turn it upside down. I start out outlining the tub/step stool with diapers, ...

Moving away from single-use plastics, including straws, had been the policy of President Joe Biden’s administration. It cited ...

The environment is littered with single-use plastic food and beverage containers — water bottles, takeout containers, coffee lids, shopping bags and more. Around the world, the equivalent of one ...

Most of us remember the flimsy plastic bags we used to get at the supermarket - you were lucky if they didn't collapse by the ...

Cotton bags need to be used 131 times ... soups and meals-to-go from shops involves a lot of single-use plastic. Reusing a box, no matter what it's made from, is key. “A steel lunchbox is ...

How many pots is that? Nearly 242 million. Wow! Historically, more plants were sold as bare-root, ball and burlap, or in ...

Senate Bill 551, the so-called “beyond the bag ban” bill, would build on regulations lawmakers approved in 2019.