For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After a successful pilot here, Wegmans Food Markets is rolling out plastic bags made of 40% post-consumer recycled plastic chainwide. The retailer believes the recycled content is ...

The plastic bag industry on Jan. 30 unveiled a voluntary commitment to boost recycled content in retail shopping bags to 20 percent by 2025 as part of a broader sustainability initiative. Under the ...

A group called Recycle More Bags is calling for government-mandated recycled content in plastic garbage and grocery bags. The group, which includes more than two dozen member organizations, wants a ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. -- A local group of volunteers spends time each week crocheting what some might consider garbage into something quite useful. They take every day plastic grocery bags and turn them ...