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 ...

Plastic is everywhere. We assume it is safe, but guess what? It is not, and more research is finding just how unhealthy it can be. Most of us already know that there is a problem with plastics in our ...

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 ...

I applaud Maya Livni's opinion column on curbing plastic pollution. "We can be a plastic-free Milwaukee if we demand action that protects our planet," Nov. 17. Our water, our bodies and Lake Michigan ...

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 ...