PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

Even if you make every effort to use a reusable grocery bag, we will all inevitably shop without it at least once — and take home a plastic shopping bag along with our wares. These things add up ...

Plastic bags and films can’t be recycled in a traditional curbside recycling bin, but there are still many opportunities for local residents to recycle these single-use plastics. A report published by ...

Crowd sourcing, giving the public an opportunity to provide information rather than seeking it from single sources, is an efficient way to gather data and sometimes provides unexpected results. Indeed ...

When it comes to recycling, most folks know to sort their plastic and paper, thanks to the blue and green plastic sorting bins given out by their municipal departments. But beyond the basics of ...

Plastic film can be recycled, but not in your curbside recycling bin — most municipalities in the United States don't accept it. Instead, you can recycle it by bringing it to a drop-off location.

Take a plastic shopping bag and stuff it horizontally into the tissue box with the handles sticking out of the slit on top.

The Rotary Club of Buckhannon-Upshur has added more drop-off locations for its soft-plastics recycling project, keeping ...