Tracey Woodruff studies how microplastics and plastic chemicals affect human health. She's cutting plastic out of her home in ...

If you’ve been tossing out those plastic strawberry containers at the end of the week without a second thought, stop ASAP!

It's not hard to find tools on Amazon that are available for bargain basement prices, but which ones are actually worth ...

Endlessly customizable and with a convenient size capacity, you should be turning those empty oatmeal canisters into ...

The university processes more than five tons of food waste every day into soil amendments it uses on campus. The school has ...

As Vermont weather begins to warm, a local tradition returns to officially welcome spring back to the Green Mountain State. Green Up Day is the first weekend of May, where residents hit streets, ...

Sacramento residents looking to get rid of unwanted items have the opportunity to ditch their junk for free this weekend. The ...

In most of the United States, we are working to implement or improve three-container systems. We have one for trash, another for recyclables and a third for organics such as food scraps and yard ...

Interested in how consumer society processes food and images, Lori Larusso depicts an increasingly askew consumer-driven world.

Dark wooden containers with light wood lids sported matching metal plates ... food scraps are the most common organics mistakenly placed in garbage cans. Some of the reluctance to participate ...

Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions ...