Jeanne Cretella is busy, often traveling from one place to another. As the president of an event management company that oversees 14 venues, including several New Jersey restaurants, that’s to be ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...

More than 100 billion plastic bags are used in America each year. One of the first steps to living an environmentally friendly lifestyle is to eliminate plastic bags from your life. This action can ...

MOUNT PLEASANT — The thick plastic bags found at stores like Walmart and Target will soon be a thing of the past as an updated ban on single-use plastics takes hold. Beginning in August, businesses in ...

Kroger made a commitment to its customers and communities a little over six years ago to phase out single-use plastic bags at its family of stores by 2025. In 2018, Kroger announced it would phase out ...

Small business owners say they have been left holding the bag as the state government continues its crackdown on plastic ...

When it comes to recycling, most folks know to sort their plastic and paper, thanks to the blue and green plastic sorting bins given out by their municipal departments. But beyond the basics of ...

It’s no secret that the flimsy plastic bags many grocery store chains use aren’t good for the environment. After one use, many of them end up in landfills, where they can take 1,000 years to degrade.

A new chemical process can essentially vaporize plastics that dominate the waste stream today and turn them into hydrocarbon building blocks for new plastics. The catalytic process, developed at the ...

At Consumer Reports, we’ve rated more than 20 hard-shell carry-ons, ranging in price from under $50 to over $1,000, from brands like Herschel, Rimowa, and Tumi. Our rigorous testing has proven, time ...