Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

Plastic debris is now a troubling reality in oceans and along shorelines worldwide. From tiny microplastics to large waste ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...

Plastic bags are a huge problem. Some 160,000 of them are used every second. That’s five trillion bags a year. And fewer than 3 per cent are recycled.

New Jersey recently adopted a law outlawing single-use plastic and paper bags beginning in May 2022. The law will also allow plastic straws but require customers to request them beginning in November.

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants ...

The use and sale of plastic shopping bags continue unabated across Hyderabad despite a province-wide ban imposed by the Sindh ...