A local woman has now created a new way to take some of that waste and put it to good use ... making sleeping mats out of plastic bags for organizations that help the homeless like Cross-Lines.

In the 1990s, when I was in elementary school, carrying your shoes in a plastic bag was good form (as opposed to using mesh bags, which we believed were the purview of pre-schoolers). Plastic bags ...

While being biodegradable is naturally the unifying factor here, beyond that we looked for the best biodegradable trash bags for kitchens, for offices or bathrooms, for yard waste, and more.

The Zero Waste Centre in the city is on a mission to reduce the problem of garbage accumulation by crafting paper pens, cloth bags and bowls out of coconut shells. Steni Simon Zero waste is a ...