The contents of my cereal are also inside a plastic bag, as is my bread. My orange juice and milk are in plastic containers. The meat is in a styrofoam tray covered in plastic. Heck, most of what ...

Yet despite our best efforts, sometimes we dispose of those plastic bags when there is plenty of life left in them. Related: ...

There, those plastic bags and plastic film packaging are turned ... they get an earth-friendly bench made from recycled plastic materials like milk jugs and detergent bottles.

such as milk jugs, making it impossible to “distinguish between plastic bags that are banned and other plastic wrap,” she said. Locally, shoppers may be using fewer plastic bags, but because ...

New York state’s 2020 ban on plastic bags was an effort to ... "They are stronger, so you’re not ripping the bag every five minutes with the milk dropping out of it." Tops also created a ...

All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think. Credit...Photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Supported by By Rachel Nuwer With ...