To the editor: Regarding the environmental damage from plastic and specifically plastic bags, no better illustration of the problem could be made than from two letters printed on Sept. 14. A ...

Opinion column on curbing plastic pollution is appreciated. Some sources suggest less than 10% of all plastic has been ...

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 ...

If you could write a letter to a member of your family, 1,000 years from now, what would you tell them? Letters to the Future contains hundreds of such letters written by people addressing their great ...

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 our ...

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 won’t have anything ...

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.

Her feet barely touched the floor as she sat before the dais, but that didn’t stop the Thomas Wharton Elementary School third grader from schooling Lancaster City Council members at their June 24 ...

I enjoy reading Mark Lewis’ columns, but have been bothered by the “guilty pleasure” he takes in his forlorn love of plastic grocery bags. Now that these bags are gone in the upper valley, he says he ...

I am a student at Bennington College. This term, I am taking a course titled "Beyond Plastic Pollution," taught by Judith Enck, a former Environmental Protection Agency regional administrator and ...

Now that nearly all the leaves have dropped from the trees, it’s common to see people burning leaves in backyard burn barrels. However, some local residents are disposing of plastic waste and ...