On February 1, 2025, in Songdo, South Korea, @moon.j_u shared a video of a plastic bag mistaken for a hippopotamus. In the video, the author is seen strolling with her cousins when they spotted a ...

Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) operatives seized shabu worth PHP1.054 billion in Angeles City, Pampanga on Monday.

Dar es Salaam. The government’s bold decision to ban plastic bags has done more than simply clean up the environment—it has sparked a wave of innovation and unlocked fresh economic opportunities ...

After years of saying goodbye to plastic bags, Giant Eagle shoppers in Cuyahoga County are seeing a familiar sight at ...

Photograph by Andria Lo, National Geographic I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. In the few years since that ban was enacted, I still see plastic thank-you ...

Plastic bag bans may not be the best way to keep plastics out of the ocean, argues Todd Myers. Jay Karr Island Packet We don’t want plastic in the ocean. Most plastic degrades slowly ...

Apparently it might not have been the last straw. Or plastic bag, for that matter. Just months away from New Jersey reaching three years of banning single-use plastic bags in most stores and paper ...

You have microplastics in you. Did you know? Between checkout at a grocery store to the refrigerator of your home, single-use plastic bags are utilized for only minutes before being discarded.

In the future, Maryland consumers in Montgomery County could forget about plastic bags at the grocery store. Those will be banned — with some exceptions — if a new bill passes the council this ...