Ridwell, and companies like it, offer to take complex plastic items you can't put in your blue bin and find a home for them.

For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After a successful pilot here, Wegmans Food Markets is rolling out plastic bags made of 40% post-consumer recycled plastic chainwide. The retailer believes the recycled content is ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's Earth Week and the ABC7 I-Team and ABC News have new details on their efforts to track plastic bags. A previous joint investigation found that several plastic bags which were ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. -- A local group of volunteers spends time each week crocheting what some might consider garbage into something quite useful. They take every day plastic grocery bags and turn them ...

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The idea that sustainably made things can’t also be stylish has, thankfully, fallen by the wayside. And that’s due in large part to brands that are focusing on making great-looking products out of ...