Don't through away those plastic bags! Reuse them, turn your old shopping bags into a cool new kite by following these instructions. Feed some string through a new straw (Leaving about 10cm either ...

Starbucks says: "One of the major issues with plastic straws is that they are too small and lightweight to be captured in modern recycling equipment." We reached out to various recycling plants ...

Single-use plastics or disposables are used only once before they are thrown away or recycled. Examples are things like straws, coffee stirrers, plastic bags, fizzy drink and water bottles and ...

I'd like to think that I was always pretty green — I reuse plastic bags from the grocery store as garbage bags, I donate clothes instead of throwing them out, and I sort my recyclables accordingly.

Plastic wrap and zip-top storage bags can’t be recycled for ... of bamboo or stainless steel utensils and straws. Until recently, you couldn’t recycle the lids that screwed off plastic bottles.

or even the bags we can take to stores for recycling. Hard-to-recycle plastics are everything else: caps and lids, food ...

The Idaho Statesman reached out to Albertsons, Fred Meyer, Walmart and WinCo to learn more about their store-front recycling efforts.

Of the 78 million metric tons of plastic packaging produced globally each year, a mere 14 percent is recycled ... single-use plastics—including bags, straws, and cups. Some retailers are ...

In its strategy for promoting plastic recycling ... use plastic straws, forks and hangers given away at stores. It should draw on its knowledge obtained through the plastic bag charge program ...