A recent article highlights an amazing opportunity for students to educate consumers about the importance of proper recycling (“Recycle Corps interns guide communities toward a sustainable tomorrow,” ...

Flexibles plastics, like grocery bags, are complex so that they can perform their intended function, which can make them difficult to recycle through traditional means. Advanced recycling technologies ...

I keep finding plastic bottles and newspapers in the grocery store’s recycling bin — that isn’t what they recycle. In fact, the garbage man will just throw the bags you put outside your house in your ...

“Paper or plastic?” Your days are numbered. The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the past. On ...

Governor Gavin Newsom just signed SB 1053, from Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas), into law, which will eliminate plastic bags at California grocery store checkout lanes. Those heavy-duty, ...

A bill that would require retail stores in the state of California to establish store recycling programs was passed by the California State Senate, and now goes to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger for ...

On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a legal settlement with four major plastic bag manufacturing ...