Full bans prohibit all single-use plastic bags at checkout, while partial bans primarily target thin, single-use plastic bags ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

July 3 is International Plastic Bag Free Day. However, across Delhi, single-use plastic (SUP) bags, including those ...