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 ...

I’ve decided that clamshells are cool for clams but infuriating for the rest of us. Have you ever tried to sneak some leftover chow mein, a grocery-store cookie or fruit-topped slice of cheesecake at ...

Driscoll’s berries are the culmination of a century’s experience of growing, harvesting and delivering the freshest, most nutritious berries possible to the market. And plastics are a key ingredient ...