A shot of someone carrying a reusable canvas bag with a recycling symbol on it - Oscar Wong/Getty Images We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cutting down on plastic waste is ...

If there's one thing almost every adult in the United States has in common, it's a secret stash of dozens of reusable shopping bags. Even in the shrinking areas where plastic bags are still available, ...

Setsuko Nakamura, right, and others show reusable shopping bags and other items made from used carp streamers while preserving the original design in Kitakyushu's Kokuraminami Ward, July 30, 2025.

KITAKYUSHU -- For about a year, some residents here have been working on transforming carp streamers and wind socks that are traditionally displayed over a local river every spring into colorful ...

In a reversal, Kroger is delaying banning single-use plastic bags in Cincinnati stores until 2022. The move is an abrupt about-face for Kroger, which had been warning customers at 10 stores within the ...

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Lagos State government’s July 1, 2025 enforcement of a single-use plastics ban, excluding PET bottles, sachet water, and ...

BENGALURU: Think again before you dump garbage in public and flout the ban on single-use plastic. Bengaluru Solid Waste ...

Sponges, brushes, and cleaning gloves are some of the best things you can buy at Dollar Tree and still get a good job done.