The next time you're coming back from weekly grocery trips with plastic fruit containers, upcycle them into decor, indoor gardening tools, and more.

Instead of tossing those plastic containers that fruit comes in directly into the recycle bin, try repurposing them in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Buying food in bulk can result in a lot of packaging waste, so Costco customers are always seeking creative and sustainable ways to repurpose the packages from the products they buy at the big box ...

Dear Heloise: Two of your letters in a recent column addressed recycling plastic. Please consider reusing it as well. Small cup-sized plastic containers (such as yogurt containers) can be tub or pool ...

Dear Heloise: Since I live alone and don’t have to cook much, I eat a lot of frozen (healthy) meals. I save the plastic containers after I clean them and use them as various storage containers in my ...

Cathy Chaplin is a former senior editor at Eater LA, a James Beard Award–nominated journalist, and the author of Food Lovers’ Guide to Los Angeles. I beamed with pride when a server at an old-school ...

I am one of the world’s best, or worst, depending on how you look at it, at saving and stockpiling things that are just asking to be reused or repurposed. Plastic containers are one of my favorites.