For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's Earth Week and the ABC7 I-Team and ABC News have new details on their efforts to track plastic bags. A previous joint investigation found that several plastic bags which were ...

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 is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." Every week, millions of ...

Some items you can recycle in one city may be prohibited in another. Batteries, plastic bags, small appliances, and more may ...

CHARLOTTE — There’s an update in a Channel 9 investigation that tracked where plastic bags go when you try to recycle them. A national directory that is tied to the cause is shutting down, ABC News ...

Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

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 ...

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — The fight to reduce plastic waste may not be delivered as promised, with plastic bags dropped off at grocery stores across the area to be recycled, instead ending up in landfills ...

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 ...

And the plastic bags collected by stores need to make it to facilities that will recycle them. Fong said addressing shortfalls in the promise of the ban needs to come from “a consortium” of invested ...