It's good to see the New Orleans City Council do the right thing, even for the "wrong" reason. Should Mardi Gras krewes be allowed to blast Mylar confetti from cannons? No! That's a terrible idea.

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 ...

Plastic bag ban all about the greenbacks? I read the Sept. 13 article, "Giant Eagle phasing out plastic bags next month." This is under the guise of making our world “greener." Single-use plastic bags ...

To the editor: To the letter writers who wrote in support of fake grass, I have two comments. First, plastic recycling is basically a hoax perpetrated by the plastics industry. Ultimately, almost all ...

Much more political and citizen action is needed to solve plastic pollution, a longtime crisis. The planet has been inundated with plastic. It covers much of the food bought in grocery stores and many ...

The column on recycling, Tee Cee’s Tip, on April 15 reminded us that plastic bags will be completely banned in Colorado on June 1 per the Plastic Pollution Reduction Act. It also reminded me of a ...

Though not too well publicized locally, July has increasingly become known as the plastic-free month since it was established in 2011. This campaign is the key initiative of the Plastic Free ...

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.