Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

Plastic containers are often a go-to option for storing leftovers. While some things about them may be debatable, you should ...

After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

Gardeners are the great tenders of earth, so it's really no surprise to find that many of them are reusing plastic containers as a tool to protect their garden from the cold. Reusing plastic is a ...

Outside a Savannah, Georgia, apartment building on a recent evening, next to a food truck serving up po’boys, is a small box truck emblazoned with green leaves. Inside are wooden shelves of reusable ...

For decades we've been told to "reduce, recycle and reuse" to help the environment. But some experts say when it comes to plastic, we might want to hold off reusing plastic food packaging. It's become ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. I beamed with pride when a server at an old-school ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — If you have plastic that can’t be recycled and you want to get rid of it, Councilman Steve Kozachik is putting it to use. He’s piloting a proposal to reuse unrecyclable plastic ...