Environmental Issues: Reducing Waste

Whole Foods, one of the leading natural and organic grocery chains in North America, has decided to ban the use of plastic bags in every one of its 270 stores--a move that will take 150 million plastic bags out of circulation each year.

Americans throw away almost 100 billion plastic bags every year, and only 1 percent to 3 percent are ever recycled, leaving the rest to clog streams, foul landscapes, and kill birds and marine mammals. Learn how you can help the environment by reducing the number of plastic bags that are produced and discarded.

These simple tips for an eco-friendly move will make your more more environmentally friendly and make moving day less wasteful.

Find out which ingredient in most plastic containers that makes it so hard to recycle them, why there are so few recyclable plastic containers, how corn plastic could be the eco-friendly answer.

Junk mail is more than an annoyance. It clogs landfills as well as your mailbox, and costs millions of trees and millions of tax dollars every year. Learn how you can reduce the amount of junk mail you receive by 90 percent.

Zero Waste encourages manufacturers to consider environmental impact of a product from design through delivery and eventual retirement. Learn more about Zero Waste and the effort to adopt it in American manufacturing.

Online bill paying is gaining popularity and it's good for the environment. Here's how online bill paying reduces waste while saving you time and money.