If you grew up saving plastic bags or collecting random screws, you’re not alone. These habits come from a place of wisdom and resilience, not clutter or fear.

Employee Steve Buchanan moves a bale of aluminum cans and plastic bottles in April 2023 at the Can Shed in Cedar Rapids. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo The Gazette offers audio versions of ...

Learn creative ways to recycle cans and plastic bottles into useful household items. Transform waste into functional organizers, decor, and practical objects. These eco-friendly projects reduce trash ...

San Diego’s chaotic shift in city trash service has begun to stabilize, with more customers signing up for new bins and more of the roughly 19,000 property owners who lost city service managing to ...

Editor's Note: These are courtesy translations of local news provided by the U.S. Army Garrison Poland Public Affairs team for the benefit the military community stationed here. Views or opinions are ...

Walk any mountain trail, city park, or downtown street this Labor Day weekend and you’ll likely spot plastic bottles or aluminum cans left behind. We call it “litter.” But let’s be honest — this isn’t ...

Is it true that you should not drink from plastic water bottles left in a hot car? Microplastics — plastic particles smaller than five millimeters — are in our food, water, clothing, personal care ...

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...