Plus, New Zealand became the first nation to ban both plastic shopping bags and plastic produce bags. As for the California legislation, "we've known for a long time that plastic bags create ...

While a January 2024 study shows that similar bans across the country have cut single-use plastic bag consumption significantly, many reusable shopping bag options are not particularly sustainable.

The move follows a successful test of the solution in late 2023. Credit: SPAR Hungary. Supermarket chain SPAR Hungary has introduced recyclable shopping bags made from the company’s plastic waste in ...

We’ve updated the section “What’s up with black ... overall plastic use—and make a difference in the global plastic pollution problem. I focus on the intersections of shopping ...

California is just saying no to plastic bags, as lawmakers recently passed legislation that will ban grocery stores from offering any bags other than paper at checkout. According to NPR, the new law ...

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 ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Under the deal Ritchies would offer MyEcoBag shopping bags to customers at the checkout, a major step in reducing Australia’s reliance on traditional plastic and carbon-intensive paper bags for ...

It used to be, “Paper or plastic?” but now in Colorado, it’s “How many bags do you want to purchase ... Aurora uses the funds for its shopping cart clean-up initiative and future ...

An ingenious, now rather iconic, costume was the black plastic rubbish bag with holes cut in for head and arms and completed with a belt. It made for an excellent witch or ghoul. We need your ...

Fair warning: if you invite me to dinner at your house and I spy a black plastic spatula in the utensil ... blisters and skin packs, plastics bags and films and sheet packages–and now, even ...