Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

Pedestrians carry plastic bags in Philadelphia, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. There are growing calls to ban plastic bags that ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Across the EU in 2022, each person used on average 66.6 lightweight plastic carrier bags.This marked a decrease of 10.8 bags (-14 per cent) per person compared with 2021. In total, 29.8 billion ...

Now that the ordinance has passed, it is clear that there will be more legal challenges before it can be implemented. City ...

ROCKVILLE, Md. (7News) — Shoppers in Montgomery County may no longer have the option to use plastic bags in the future. New legislation introduced this past week would ban all plastic bags.

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Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

This time, they decided to put the polymers in plastic sandwich bags to the test – while quizzing Baihly Warfield and Kenny Johnson on science questions. Each question Baihly and Kenny got right ...

Following complaints about reusable Walmart blue bags piling up in homes, the retail giant is phasing out the fabric bags, switching to paper bags for both grocery delivery and in stores.