A Manistee church is taking action against plastic waste with a new community project promoting reusable bags.

Heading into the grocery store, without remembering to bring your reusable bags, you may be forced to pay the 5 cent per bag tax for that forgetfulness. As you rack up your bag use tally, you may be ...

A woman’s quirky DIY idea is going viral after she turned men’s underwear into a tote bag for grocery shopping. Watch the 5-minute craft that left the internet laughing and amazed!

Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any thicker for at least another two years as lawmakers fine-tune the state’s ...

I enjoy reading Mark Lewis’ columns, but have been bothered by the “guilty pleasure” he takes in his forlorn love of plastic grocery bags. Now that these bags are gone in the upper valley, he says he ...

Two Washington State University economists recommend the state drop its ban on single-use plastic bags. Thicker reusable plastic bags actually increase plastic waste in the environment, they found.

Founding Father John Dickinson, a Pennsylvanian who participated in writing the Declaration of Independence, joined his colleagues in condemning England’s Stamp Act. He termed it “… an authority ...

FROM DISCARDED PLASTIC BAGS TO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS COMFORT AND HOPE. A LOCAL CHURCH IS TURNING EVERYDAY TRASH INTO A TANGIBLE ACT OF KINDNESS. JOYCE OGIRRI SHOWS US THE CREATIVE WAY VOLUNTEERS ARE ...