After three decades of being Penn Township's municipal trash disposal system, "pay-as-you-throw" is headed for the trash.

Luggage tags can mean the difference between a suitcase that’s lost permanently, and one that’s quickly found.

Amazon’s Sustainable Materials Innovation Lab is trying to design a kind of plastic that's cleaner to make—and easier to ...

Purchase a large plastic bowl, E6000 glue, mosaic grout, mosaic sealant, and a few bags of glass gems or glass pebbles for ...

If you like to stay hydrated no matter where you go, chances are you’ve got a reusable water bottle or two. Or 10. (The collectors know who they are.) ...

Packing and unpacking might be the most time-consuming aspect of a move, especially if you plan on doing it yourself. The ...

Officially, street pigeons are not vermin, like rats, another species of barefoot city dweller, with which they are often ...

Get a jump on your spring cleaning purge now. From old makeup to worn shoes to takeout condiments and unneeded formalwear, ...

Refrigerate collected mushrooms in a paper bag. The white morel is the most common morel mushroom and is often called the white or gray morel. Its color varies from light cream to gray and to ...

Read on to learn more about the risks of microplastics and shop some healthier, non-plastic storage containers. Airtight plastic food containers filled with vegetables on kitchen counter.

Proposed by the city’s Sustainability Commission, the goal is to get people into the habit of using reusable bags when shopping so that the use single-use plastic bags is reduced, commission ...

While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...