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

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

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic ...

Nearly half a century of beach cleanups across America show that plastic bag bans reduce plastic bag litter washing up on our ...

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

But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and riverbanks. Plastic bag fees ...

The measure, which mandated a charge on all single-use plastic bags in supermarkets, came into force in October 2015.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have ...

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

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