Along with orange peels and eggshells, people are tossing cling wrap, foam trays and other plastic food packaging into their compost, contaminating it.

would be "industrially compostable" - but not plastic free. That means the bags can be put in the food or garden waste bin collected by your local council, but not home compost heaps, which don't ...

The deadline for banning the sale and use of thin shopping bags expired on December 10, prompting the government and the ...

The refrigerator can easily become cluttered and hard to navigate when it's full of cardboard boxes and plastic containers.

The United Nations estimates that up to 10% of all human-produced greenhouse gases are generated by food loss and waste. That ...

Single-use plastic bag use in England has fallen by 20% after ... the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Most supermarkets now only offer 'bags for life' which are not included ...

But paper bags do not tend to be reused ... So which is worse for the environment – plastic or food waste? We enter the plastic paradox. According to anti-waste charity WRAP, increasing the ...

metallic plastic bag inside. It’s day one of my plastic-free food shopping challenge, and it already feels doomed. Why so negative? Stress. Driving back from the supermarket, I put my loose ...

Tea bags are bleached paper or food-grade plastic bags that hold small tea leaf particles. This packaging is convenient and ...