Re “Banning plastic straws won’t solve pollution issue” (Letters, Aug. 30): First of all, the California legislation of plastic straws is not a ban. It simply states that restaurants should only ...

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 — Ocean pollution is a real thing, and it is getting worse every day. Debris is polluting our oceans. The most dangerous type of ocean pollutant is plastic. The amount of plastic in the ...

To the editor — The article "Ban bag lags" doesn't begin to describe how badly written this legislation is. My business sells a lot of one-page legal forms. What options do we have to protect them ...

Most grocery stores have recycling containers for plastic bags which can reduce the number of plastic bags going to the dump. Unfortunately the people who don’t use the recycling containers are the ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. To the editor: The plastic problem is one of the most alarming problems in the current world. Specifically, left-over plastic in our oceans and coastal ...

Plastic is a major environmental pollutant with a 5-6% recycling rate. The remaining 95% of plastic waste is either burned in incinerators, shipped to third-world countries or ends up in the ocean, ...

As we enter the holiday season, you’ll see some commonalities among a lot of your kid’s toys: plastic. That new Transformer, Barbie, board game — it all comes either sheathed in plastic, or made of it ...

Regarding the May 28 opinion article, “California must stop dumping toxic plastic waste abroad” (Mercurynews.com), I agree that our state must take further action in reducing plastic pollution. While ...

Despite plastic being one of the most difficult materials to recycle, companies continue to put recycling symbols on items that will never end up anywhere but the landfill. If we’re going to truly ...

Here are some facts we need to look at before we ban plastic bags. Making paper bags requires four times more energy than making plastic bags. Producing paper bags creates 50 times more water ...