Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles confirmed the three plastic surgeries she has had after asking her followers to guess, ...

Cups, bags, wipes, and wrappers slip into your day without much thought, used once and forgotten. But the pile doesn’t vanish ...

Heading into the grocery store, without remembering to bring your reusable bags, you may be forced to pay the 5 cent per bag tax for that forgetfulness. As you rack up your bag use tally, you may be ...

Instead of tossing plastic bags in the trash, use them around your home. Learn some of the most useful ways to repurpose ...

Front Royal resident Angela Bambrey is packing her bags for the trip of a lifetime. Bambrey, 43, will play for the U.S. National Women’s Blind Cricket Team in the inaugural Women’s T20 Blind Cricket ...

In addition to avoiding the waste and pollution of single-use plastics, I find the concept of microplastics has added a whole new level of concern. For instance, I do my food shopping with reusable ...

California is suing three plastic bag manufacturers that officials say are violating state law by providing bags billed as recyclable when they are in fact not, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced ...

Gubernatorial hopeful Jack Ciattarelli gets a warm reception from prospective voters when he promises to lower property taxes and fix NJ Transit. But the Republican hoping to succeed Gov. Phil Murphy ...

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A 2.25-millimeter thick reusable plastic grocery bag. Each bag is intended to last up to 125 uses. (Photo by Emily Fitzgerald, Washington State Standard.) Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per ...

Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any thicker for at least another two years as lawmakers fine-tune the state’s ...