Tom Oder is a writer, editor, and communication expert who specializes in sustainability and the environment with a sweet spot for urban agriculture. If you feed them, they will come. Microbes, that ...

You probably think about what and how much you throw away – but do you ever stop to think about what you throw it into? If you’re using a garbage bag made of cheap plastics, you might be unknowingly ...

Using plastic bags is an ecological disaster; it takes about 1,000 years for one to degrade in a landfill (and even then, it leaves behind microplastics that can add toxins to soil or water).

They're often touted as 'eco-friendly', but a new study may have you second guessing buying compostable bags. Sourceful, a Manchester-based sustainable packaging startup, analysed more than 20 ...

It seems like the perfect solution for those of us who compost: a bag you can toss your veggie scraps in that quickly decomposes in the compost bin. Reader and super recycler Karen Erickson of ...

Buffalo River Compost brand Tend will use bags that contain 20 percent PCR supplied by EFS-plastics and made by Salerno Packaging. Photo courtesy of EFS-plastics Inc. Tonawanda, New York-based NOCO’s ...

When you pick up your dog’s poop, you do everyone a favor, but if you want to do the environment a favor as well you’ll need to use the right poop bag. A regular old plastic bag can pollute oceans, ...

San Francisco’s landmark ban on common plastic shopping bags last month inspired pundits and politicians to predict that other cities would soon follow suit. But what worked there might prove tough to ...

In a recent letter to the editor, a writer asked where compost bags could be picked up in the event that someone wasn’t able to go to the fairgrounds as part of the scheduled pickup. For those who ...