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 ...

While you can’t typically recycle plastic bags in your curbside recycling bin, you can recycle them through specialty plastic recyclers. You may even be able to drop them off at a nearby retail store ...

Are plastic shopping bags really recyclable? That’s what Coralville resident Mary C. McCarthy wondered when she wrote to Curious Iowa, a series from The Gazette that answers readers’ questions. While ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The Denver City Council has been discussing the idea of imposing a fee on grocery bags at city stores for the last several months. During this time, I’ve had ...

Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too. For Judith Enck, that's the epitome of pointless plastic. The baby food aisle is ...

Philadelphia took one step closer to banning single-use bags Tuesday but axed a 15-cent fee on thicker plastic and recyclable paper bags. Residents from the Philadelphian, a condominium building ...

A group of scientists in India have developed a process to transform disused plastic bags into usable fuel. Researchers at the National Institute of Technology and the Centurion University of ...