Across New York, small grocery stores, bodegas, and neighborhood coffee shops are more than just businesses. They are ...

In the past, if you bought LED lightbulbs at Ikea, they probably would have been in a plastic blister pack—something that’s both hard to open and likely to end up in the trash, since most plastic ...

This fall, as an advocate with Environment Washington, I helped organize a litter cleanup. In just over an hour, our team picked up more than 120 pounds of trash. While we found some big items, we ...

Walking down the street, or visiting the park or beach, there’s one thing you’ll almost inevitably see: pieces of plastic packaging—washed up on the sand, tangled in a hedgerow, lying in the gutter.

Sometimes even the smallest change can go a long way in improving consumer perception and brand loyalty. Right now, one of the most immediately impactful things a brand can do is to switch plastic ...

In February, Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy released a report on small-format plastic packaging recovery, revealing a pathway to recover tens of thousands of tons of small ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...

Feeling guilty about all those blue-and-white plastic Amazon bags piling up around the house? Fear not — they can be recycled! At least, that’s what the packaging says. For years now, Amazon’s plastic ...

Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society. Meanwhile, the single-use plastic packaging used to reduce food wastage poses a more insidious ...

The company says it is refining its sustainability goals to position itself for the long term, including the phase-out of its reusable packaging targets and a drop in its virgin plastic reduction and ...