You may live in an area that's outlawed single-use plastic shopping bags. This is a great step toward reducing waste, litter, and pollution, but plastic bags aren't going away any time soon. They're ...

Join Homewood Recycling's Hop Reuse Hub team for a fun, two-part Lunch & Learn series this spring. We will teach you how to use plastic bags to make a reusable produce bag! This is a two-part event.

It's called plarn, a word that's a mash up of plastic and yarn. And it's made from those ubiquitous grocery bags that seem to proliferate in kitchen cabinets and drawers. On Thursday at the Jewish ...