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.

I enjoy reading Mark Lewis’ columns, but have been bothered by the “guilty pleasure” he takes in his forlorn love of plastic grocery bags. Now that these bags are gone in the upper valley, he says he ...

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 ...

As a Washington resident, I see plastic pollution every time I go outside. I cannot remember a time in my life when my walks weren’t blighted by plastic. With increasing production, there is now even ...

For steel-making communities, plastic-burning pollution is headed your way. The Department of Energy has proposed a $182 million taxpayer loan for a company that will build a plastic trash plant in ...

According to the Sept. 27 Mountain Xpress edition, local jurisdictions banning single-use plastic bags are now prohibited from doing so due to a recent N.C. General Assembly act on Sept. 22. This is a ...

It’s lightweight and waterproof, cheap enough to throw away after a single use, and durable enough to last for years even after being thrown away. When single-use plastics — like plastic straws, foam ...

The reason that plastic is bad for the environment is because animals eat the plastic, and humans eat the animals. The writer is a fifth-grader at William Kelley Elementary School who wrote this as ...

Note from Opinion Editor Amelia Robinson: In a letter to the editor published Sept. 15, reader Michael Federer voiced his objections to Giant Eagle's plan to phase out single-use plastic bags and ...

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 ...