The announcement represents the fulfillment of a promise Amazon made in June to work “ toward full removal ” of plastic air pillows from North America by the end of the year. At that time, the company ...

Gone are the days of free plastic bags. Now it’s taxed paper bags, or BYOB — Bring Your own Bag. That’s also the name of a new Montgomery County Council proposal with a goal to ban single-use plastic ...

What Is Plastic? Plastics are so infused in our lives that we often don’t realize some of the everyday items made from them, ...

What can’t you do with PVC pipe? Here are 56 incredibly smart (and cheap!) ways to use this do-it-all material around your ...

Sandbags can be extremely useful in helping to keep floodwaters out of your home or business. But make sure you use them correctly.

The department said about 150 million pounds of plastic was used in trash bags and beverage containers covered by the law in 2023, the first year it went into effect. About 24 percent of that ...

(INSIDE CALIFORNIA POLITICS) — Ten years after the California legislature passed a bill to ban single-use plastic bags, Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed another bill to ban plastic grocery bags.

“These pipes, if your grocery bag is going to stay a million years ... His vision for Soleno goes beyond pioneering the plastic pipe market in the United States. He wants the company to be ...

A total of 16 retail chains, which have close to 8,000 outlets nationwide, will no longer be providing single-use plastic bags to customers starting 1 October According to the New Straits Times, ...

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