Many food containers seem recyclable, but they really aren't. Here's what to put in the recycling bin and what you should ...

Older plastic food storage containers stand the risk of breaking ... throwing away seemingly perfectly good bins, you can always recycle them or reuse them to store non-food items like LEGOs ...

Remember the days when we recycled plastic items, we always looked for the triangle with the number inside the triangle? We no longer go by those numbers and instead ask ourselves a simple question to ...

Much of the U.S. uses single-stream recycling, where plastic, glass and paper go into one bin. Here’s what happens to that material and ways engineering is trying to improve the process ...

I reached some some expected conclusions (The Container Store ... was Hay’s recycled-plastic crate. A lot of storage bins prioritize function over aesthetics, which can limits where you ...

We use plastic tubs for everything from taking ... including food packaging, food storage containers, tableware and many other items. There is evidence that many of those chemicals do transfer ...

The frenetic pace of life we lead has forced us to plan better the food we eat, the routines we have and the plans we make. In relation to the first, there is an instrument that ha ...

What follows are general rules and guidelines on which takeout containers can and can't be recycled and how best to recycle them. Plastic clamshell containers: Clear plastic takeout containers ...