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Before you reheat tonight’s leftovers, it helps to know what actually matters when it comes to plastic food containers, especially as questions about microplastics continue to grow. Reusing plastic ...

Dear Heloise: Two of your letters in a recent column addressed recycling plastic. Please consider reusing it as well. Small cup-sized plastic containers (such as yogurt containers) can be tub or pool ...

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A: Let’s start with the new ones, F.S. I like to remind readers that “recycle” comes last in the “3 Rs” (reduce, reuse, recycle) for a reason. Reducing the amount of waste we generate to begin with is ...