Before you toss that empty bottle, consider using it in your garden to save money and reduce waste.

If you're into healthy eating, you probably buy fruits and berries often. While these healthy snacks are great, they also bring along a problem that's difficult to avoid: plastic containers. These ...

Cabbage leaves covered in frost in the garden - Ulrike Leone/Getty Images Gardeners are the great tenders of earth, so it's really no surprise to find that many of them are reusing plastic containers ...

You may not think that there is any clear use in plastic fruit containers after all the fruit is gone, but you ought to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. So you've bought some strawberries at the local store. You knew you wouldn't be able to resist them the moment you saw them, and ...

After draining a water bottle, it might be tempting to fill it back up from the tap without a second thought. But can you really reuse plastic water bottles? Plastic bottles don't seem to be going ...

Dear Heloise: The 4-ounce plastic containers from jello, pudding and applesauce are great to use as measuring cups. I keep canisters full of flour, sugar, cornmeal and coffee. They work well in an ...