In an ideal world, we would all be stocking our cheese boards with only those hunks acquired from a farmers' market or ...

Consumers want something to be done about plastic pollution. Recycling is something. Therefore oil companies, manufacturers ...

In Detroit, the grocery landscape is a story of struggle. In 2020, the number of Detroit residents identifying as food ...

Clothlike bags sold at big box stores, often made out of plastic, can’t be recycled, which means they’re often left to ...

Clothlike bags sold at big box stores, often made out of plastic, can’t be recycled, which means they’re often left to ...

One member of Stamford's Board of Representatives said she believed the board should instead focus on single-use utensils.

A brief 63 years ago, my column was over 1,000 words, and the newspaper pages were bigger. The column was 20 inches in length ...

To combat the problem of people stockpiling too many reusable bags, environmentalists recommend retailers find solutions. But so far, major retailers haven’t bought in, raising concerns that profits ...

Yesterday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1053, banning plastic bags from being provided at grocery store checkouts. This move turns off the tap to a notable source of needless ...

It seems like everything rings up as a lot more than it once did, but perhaps worst of all are the things that used to be ...

Starting in 2026, California shoppers will no longer be asked "paper or plastic" at grocery store checkouts, as a new law signed by Governor Gavin Newsom bans all plastic shopping bags The state had ...

Plastic bags not only pollute the environment, often almost immediately following their use, but break down into tiny toxic plastic pieces called microplastics that have found their way into drinking ...