Although primarily used for food storage and making prepacked freezer meals at home, there are lots of other clever uses for ...

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In the artist’s show at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, sculptures made with recycled goods engage with cycles of consumption ...

Plastic wrap and zip-top storage bags can’t be recycled for the same reason as ... Or, if you’re crafty, try a DIY sandwich bag project. The push to ban plastic straws has been a hot topic ...

I thought I was doing all right until I wrote about brilliant uses for plastic wrap in the kitchen about two years ago. What ...

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

I thought the tuna salad wrap was slightly lacking in flavor. The turkey apple cheddar sandwich would be perfect for an office lunch. Trader Joe's is known for its varied and affordable prepared ...

It’s generally safe to reuse plastic freezer and sandwich bags if they haven't stored raw meat, fish, eggs, or allergens.

Check your local guidelines. As for plastic bags and similar plastics such as food wrap, these tend to get tangled up in most recycling machinery, gumming up the works. They can be recycled ...