As a Washington resident, I see plastic pollution every time I go outside. I cannot remember a time in my life when my walks weren’t blighted by plastic. With increasing production, there is now even ...

Paper or plastic? How about neither? For years, we have been asked, in the supermarket, do we prefer a paper or plastic bag for groceries. Now the choice has spread to, of all things, drinking straws.

Although plastic never decomposes, most of the plastic pieces in the patch have broken down into microplastics, smaller than 5 millimeters long. That size makes it easier for turtles, fish and other ...

The plastic bag ban has finally gone into effect in our state. Those plastic grocery bags were way too common and numerous, for sure. However, many people used them at home to line wastebaskets and to ...

Note from Opinion Editor Amelia Robinson: In a letter to the editor published Sept. 15, reader Michael Federer voiced his objections to Giant Eagle's plan to phase out single-use plastic bags and ...