Portland loves to reduce, reuse and, of course, recycle. But even here there are some things that just cannot be recycled. Take the plastic clamshell box, ubiquitous at grocery stores, full of ...

The scissors were on sale for $3. Suspended between two thick layers of tough plastic, they looked permanently imprisoned. Ingenuity, and no small amount of effort, would be needed to free my ...

Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure committee is moving ahead with a plan to recycle “clamshell containers” — like the ones which hold berries and store-bought sandwiches — as well as plastic ...