SARASOTA COUNTY (WFLA) — Each year, tens of thousands of tons of yard waste end up at the landfill in Nokomis. A good portion of that waste comes to the facility in plastic trash bags, but pretty soon ...

Marc Mataya, Charlotte, NC, resident and serial inventor, created the Leaf Burrito, a reusable yard waste removal bag, which is designed to help eliminate detrimental single-purpose plastic bags.

Greensboro residents are navigating another winter without loose leaf pickup as the city enforces rules, prompting warnings ...

The city of Asheville will enact a ban on the use of plastic bags to dispose of brush and leaf waste effective Aug. 1 as part of a phased plan searching for ways to reduce single-use plastics citywide ...

SARASOTA COUNTY, Fla. — Sarasota County leaders are reminding residents to "leaf it out." Starting May 1, the county will stop collecting any yard waste left in plastic bags. Instead, any grass ...

LENAWEE COUNTY — As the mighty rock band Led Zeppelin said in their song “Ramble On,” released in 1969, “Leaves are falling all around.” With it being the fall season, leaves have literally been ...