Bunches of bananas wrapped in plastic. A pre-peeled orange in a plastic box. Shrink-wrapped cucumbers. Over-packaged food has been bothering shoppers for years and supermarkets have responded by ...
This year recycling got a great deal easier. Investment in new technologies at recycling centres means that all plastic packaging waste, including soft plastic, can now be placed in your household ...
Amazon said its plastic packaging footprint came to 97,222 metric tons in 2021. The environmental group Oceana estimates the waste was more than three times that amount. Amazon is under pressure to ...
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 ...