States ban plastic bags, PFAS chemicals, and foam containers to cut waste and improve recycling across multiple industries ...

Owls and other talon-ted species at the White Mountain Nature Center remind audiences of the importance of recycling and ...

California’s familiar milk cartons, long stamped with the chasing-arrows recycling logo, are suddenly at the center of a high-stakes test of what “recyclable” really means. A shift in how the state’s ...

Last February, I climbed into a Jeep and rumbled up a rocky shelf road that took me high above a breathtaking corner of the Mojave National Preserve. At the top was an old gold mine where an ...

Waste Management has halted carton sorting at its Sacramento facility, likely forcing California to strip the recycling symbol from milk and juice containers statewide. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images ...

I applaud Maya Livni's opinion column on curbing plastic pollution. "We can be a plastic-free Milwaukee if we demand action that protects our planet," Nov. 17. Our water, our bodies and Lake Michigan ...

“The only thing being recycled are the false claims of the manufacturers,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D). Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued three major plastic bag ...

California is suing three plastic bag manufacturers that officials say are violating state law by providing bags billed as recyclable when they are in fact not, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SAN FRANCISCO – Concluding his statewide investigation into plastic bag producers and whether the plastic bags they have sold ...

The Bel Air grocery store in the Pocket sells its own reusable bags for 10 cents. As of Jan. 1, the city of Sacramento bans grocery stores, large pharmacies and convenience stores from offering single ...

Trying to recycle ALL the plastic we generate is not easy - ok it's almost impossible, but the Recycling Modernization Act that started being implemented in July, and several innovative start-up are ...