My belief system says that we the people and our country, are drowning in plastics....in our streams, oceans, landfills, roadways....everywhere!

In the '60s through the 2010s, we used paper cups with plastic straws and plastic lids. Now, they have been trying to get rid of plastic straws and have us use paper straws wrapped in plastic.

Plastic is everywhere. We assume it is safe, but guess what? It is not, and more research is finding just how unhealthy it can be. Most of us already know that there is a problem with plastics in ...

I have been experimenting with not using plastic food storage bags and instead using waxed paper bags. I’ve sealed the waxed paper bags with a rubber band or two, which as it has turned out is ...

Letter: Paper or plastic? Published 5 November 2008. From Devon McCormick . Feedback deplores a misleading argument in favour of plastic bags, in the claim that burying them in landfill is carbon ...

Re: “Dead whale found with 88 pounds of plastic in its stomach” (Mercurynews.com, March 18): An innocent sea creature was killed over negligent plastic disposal. Imagine ingesting 80 plastic ...

Why The Paper Towels & Plastic Peony Storage Trick Helps Them Last Longer. Story by Laura Hampson • 5m. T here's nothing quite like the charm of Paeonia lactiflora, a.k.a. peony, ...

A recent letter writer states that it takes effort to return plastic bags to the grocer’s recycling containers and claims that the downside of eliminating plastic bags is that he ...

Furthermore, unlike plastic, paper bags are made from a renewable and sustainable resource. The industry plants more than 1.7 million new trees each day and recovered 63.4 percent of all paper ...

It is refreshing to read about good people doing good things. The people of Wasilla (and a few other Alaska communities) deserve congratulations for banning plastic bags. Most of the world now ...

There are so many op-eds in and letters to the paper talking about the amount of plastic in our world and the damage it is doing. There are even no more free plastic bags at the grocery. I have ...

Get editorials, opinion columns, letters to the editor and more in your inbox weekday mornings. Sign up for the Opinion newsletter. Between 4 million and 12 million metric tons of plastic washed ...