GRAND RAPIDS -- David and Yvonne Woodard were feeling pretty sustainable Friday afternoon as they stowed two brand-new rain barrels in the back of their minivan. The white barrels were free, made out ...

The effort stems from PFAS exposure concerns due to leaching from the containers, which are used for a wide variety of products. EPA took the first step toward regulating “forever chemicals” leaching ...

This is [Wombling’s] no-cost solution to getting rain from his gutters into a rain barrel. It is literally just a bunch of plastic water bottles chained together. At one end he uses the original cap ...

Note: A version of this column ran Jan. 15, 2016. Virtually any container that you can cut or punch drainage holes into can be used for vegetable gardening. Styrofoam ice chests, livestock watering ...

LANSING – It’s a sure sign of summer in Michigan: the orange highway construction barrel. The bane of drivers, the plastic cylinders are so plentiful that some consider the orange barrel Michigan’s ...