In 2011, the Plastic Free Foundation began Plastic Free July, a monthlong challenge to reduce plastic waste. In just 12 years, what started as a small campaign in Western Australia in 2011 has become ...

If you buy in bulk at the grocery store, you know what it's like to come home with a plastic bag full of nuts, cereal, trail mix, or some other loose item that you got from a dispenser. Instead of ...

Silicone food storage bags keep food fresher for longer while reducing the risk of plastic contamination in the kitchen.

Nearly every piece of plastic ever made still exists in some form. Single-use packaging accounts for the highest-demand use of plastic, with 139 million metric tons of single-use plastic waste ...

We look into why reducing plastic waste can be more easily achieved when producers sell in bulk and consumers bring their own reusable food packaging. “Tomorrow, when we have a choice between two ...

I didn't see the thin plastic thread running between one leaf on my pineapple and its tag when I put the pineapple in my shopping cart, when I checked out or when I unpacked groceries at home. It wasn ...

A practical guide from sustainability experts on reducing plastic at the grocery store and going zero waste at home.

It’s the dream: a plastic free supermarket where half my shopping isn’t coated in the clear, cold, hard stuff – plastic. Well for me it is anyway. I’ve been on a mission to use as few plastic bags as ...

In the minds of many wine connoisseurs, nothing is so shaded from this great elixir's rarified glow than the idea of bulk wine. The very word "bulk" is deeply unsexy, more likely to bring to mind ...