single use plastic

Litter, open dumping, lingering garbage from missed pick-ups and unmanaged public receptacles, waste is polluting our Philadelphia neighborhoods, landscapes, and waterways. Plastic packaging of all kinds is so pervasive it is hard to avoid and next to impossible to recycle. ...

The Indian restaurant has been serving up food in reusable packaging since March, and the results have been amazing.  If you love Indian takeout and fighting single-use plastic, it’s your lucky day.  Tiffin, a popular Indian restaurant with ten locations across the Philadelphia area, introduced its...

Clean Air Council Attorney Logan Welde didn’t quit, and it may finally pay off. Councilman Mark Squilla introduced a single-use plastic bag ban, placing a $.15 cent fee on all other paper bags and heavy plastic yesterday in City Council....

What’s one way to respond to our current recycling crisis to curb our consumption rates? Legislation. PennEnvironment Executive Director David Masur and (mostly southeast PA Democratic) state legislators announced a “Zero Waste PA” package of bills with goals to reduce...