Those crinkly plastic cartons are so much more than just a single-use receptacle for storing your favorite fruit.

Restaurants will sometimes put your takeout in a pretty nice plastic container. Megan McCuller from weblog Recylart shows you how to reuse those containers for growing plants. McCuller tested takeout ...

You can get multiple uses from a plastic salad container. We were in need of some dark green leafy vegetables last January, so I started buying 1-pound plastic boxes of organic baby spinach. One day, ...

I don’t even need to open my kitchen cabinet right now to see that dozens of my plastic food storage containers are stained every color of the rainbow: spaghetti red, curry yellow, and even a lovely ...

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