The 63-year-old Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, the oldest son of a taxi driver and a homemaker, grew up in a one-room ...

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Nick Cyr landed his first full-time job about two months ago at the Goodwill store in downtown Waterville, Amy Calder writes.

Sorting out answers at Staten Island’s giant paper pulp vat and the massive sifter in Brooklyn — including why seeing metal ...

Oregon Senate Bill 551, sponsored by Democrat Janeen Sollman of Hillsboro, would phase out all plastic checkout bags -- ...

Maintaining a compost pile is traditionally though of as a spring or summer task, as you tend to your gardens in the sunny ...

Where do pizza boxes go? What exactly is rigid plastic? How clean do empty jars need to be? Relax, experts say.

Flour from Hopkinsville Milling Co. was produced specifically for export to Europe in 1949 as part of the Marshall Plan.

The Lunch Box Museum in Columbus is not just a trip down memory lane; it’s a full-blown nostalgia extravaganza that’ll have ...

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.

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

Then there's the environmental impact of using and throwing away wrapping paper. Each year, the U.S. sends about 2.3 million ...