A class action lawsuit claims the grocer and manufacturer marked the products as compostable despite containing “forever ...

Re: “New health minister has a long to-do list,” Jan. 18. The story said the new payment model for family physicians would compensate us for our office overhead, but this is incorrect.

From the food they eat to dog waste on the ground, our pets can end up adding to global pollution — but there are ways to ...

In their space-starved apartments, residents complain they have no good place to store their mounting food scraps — and collection can, at times, be annoying.

It's one thing to want to live a low-waste lifestyle, but it's another thing to actually take the steps necessary to live it. Frankly, it's hard living a low-waste lifestyle, since so many essential ...

New York City first began curbside residential organic waste pick-up in Queens and Brooklyn a few years before city-wide pick ...

Food dehydrators, which dry and grind up food into soil-like grounds, have emerged as a way to keep food waste out of the garbage. Here’s how to use them.

This change will go into effect March 1. The cost of the bags will go from 75 cents to $1 for 13-gallon bags, $1.50 to $2 for ...

Plastic pollution is a big problem for our oceans and although in recent years, people have started cutting down on plastic ...

Portillo's body was discovered in garbage bags and stuffed under a bed Wednesday. Officials say Navarro and her husband owed about $24,000 in back rent and they had not paid in years. Police say ...

Authors of the new plastic waste report, echoing the first-year report, said after the plastic reduction law roughly 16.5 ...

It took almost 20 years, but Annapolis’ Plastic Bag Reduction Act is now in effect. The page about the ordinance on the ...