
If businesses are going to promote more sustainable choices, they should promote choices that matter.

Wal-Mart already does some other recycling collection, but this is the only way I know of to get paid for used yogurt containers.

After last year's noisy compostable SunChips bag fiasco, Frito-Lay has come back with a new, improved design, and it's in stores now.

The European Union today banned a variety of dangerous chemicals that the United States is still using freely. Time to catch up, America.

You don't use plastic bags at the grocery checkout. So why do you still use them in the produce department?

Here's a profitable product that can solve two environmental problems at once. It involves a secret formula of bacteria, raw sewage, and an M.B.A.

With plastic instead of aluminum, these trucks are about 40 percent more fuel efficient. Impressive.

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Irish mathematicians discover a biodegradable alternative to the plastic widget in cans of Guinness.

But their waste is only a little worse than the Democrat waste it's replacing.

Watch this moment of unexpected beauty, as a mini-tornado lifts plastic sheeting off a strawberry field and twirls it through the air.

An abstract short film that narrates the story of the ocean's struggles alongside a collection of understated motion graphics and a jazz score.

Van Jones talks about the injustices—health, economic, environmental—of plastic and our addiction to disposability.
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