Waste Management’s recycling center on Chicago’s far South Side is meant to sort cans, bottles, paper and cardboard. It is not meant to sort plastic bags, but you wouldn’t know it by the sheer ...

The single-use plastic bag could be an endangered shopping species. The thin plastic bag with handles -- known in the industry as the T-shirt bag -- is under pressure from municipal bag bans and a ...

A Japanese inventor has created a machine suitable for home use that can turn plastic waste into fuel, a technological feat that could give us something to do with all the grocery sacks piling up ...

On a foggy Tuesday morning, kids out of school for summer break are learning to sail on the waters of Lake Merritt. A great egret hunts for fish, while dozens of cormorants perch, drying their wings.

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More than 100 billion plastic bags are used in America each year. One of the first steps to living an environmentally friendly lifestyle is to eliminate plastic bags from your life. This action can ...

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper? In California ...