In one of his last acts of the legislative season, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that effectively bans all single-use plastic bags at the point of sale, closing a loophole that ...

SAN ANTONIO – Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that banned the use of paper straws. Whether you use paper or plastic products — what happens to them when you throw ...

Plastic bags are not biodegradable and pose a huge problem for the environment, the marine ecosystem in particular. These ...

Waste Management recently announced it would accept to-go cups. Rumpke Waste and Recycling has been taking them for two years now. Both companies provide recycling for multiple Indiana cities and ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of "paper or plastic" in checkout ...

Californians have long supported the idea of eliminating single-use plastic bags from grocery store checkouts. In fact, nearly a decade ago, both the state’s voters and the California Legislature ...

President Trump's National Strategy to End The Use of Paper Straws claims PFAS pose a health risk, but paper manufacturers say they don't intentionally include the substances in their products.

For years, “paper or plastic?” has been the question that millions of shoppers hear when they roll up to the checkout counter. But in California, that universal phrase may soon be going the way of ...

The order instructs federal agencies to stop purchasing paper straws “and otherwise ensure that paper straws are no longer provided within agency buildings.” The move targets a Biden administration ...