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How to Break the Plastic Wrap Habit in Your Kitchen (and What to Use Instead)

Plastic wrap is made from materials like PVDC and LDPE — plastics that don't break down. They end up in landfills, oceans and — brace yourself — possibly in our bodies. Microplastics have been found ...
The Washington Post

Reducing your plastic wrap use in the kitchen is easy, with just a few tweaks

As cooks grow more conscious of the environmental impacts of their own kitchens — home or professional — some eco-unfriendly habits remain hard to break. Cheap and convenient, plastic wrap ...

6 Kitchen Items You're Probably Recycling Wrong—and What to Do Instead

Many common kitchen items like clamshells, foil and greasy pizza boxes often can’t go in curbside recycling. Food residue on ...
TreeHugger

Your Kitchen Doesn't Need Plastic Cling Wrap

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...
NPR

Should you toss your plastic kitchen tools for health reasons? Here's the scoop

It's a plastic world out there. About 460 million metric tons of the material are made each year, according to the United Nations, and some scientists are growing increasingly worried that ...