Stainless-steel trash cans are the easiest to clean; they don’t absorb bad odors and are the most costly material. Plastic ...

Japan's campaign to get customers to sack the use of plastic shopping bags by making stores charge for them is working, an Environment Ministry survey showed. During a single week, 72 percent of ...

Plastic shopping bags aren't recyclable, so if you use them to carry your groceries home each time you visit the supermarket, stop chucking them in the trash can and start saving them instead.