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 ...

Whatever your choice, these bags help carry the load and get the word out. Learn more about the art of shopping at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Watch Artist Aymar Ccopacatty, National ...

Bozeman’s proposed plastic bag and styrofoam ban had legal challenges on its way to the ballot. Proponents can expect new ...

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.

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning ...

You don't have to go out a buy a new bath mat if yours is looking worse for wear. Simply take some unused plastic bags and ...

Japan's campaign to get customers to sack the use of plastic shopping bags by making stores charge for them is working, an Environment Ministry survey showed. During a single week, 72 percent of ...

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 ...

There are currently 25 “reusable” grocery store-style bags sitting at my front door, half a dozen large shopping bags and a similar number of bags with dividers to carry bottles home from the ...

In fact, the number of plastic bags being disposed of in Hong Kong has risen every year since the full implementation of the Plastic Shopping Bag Charging Scheme in 2015, according to the ...

RAWALPINDI: After a break of six months, the district administration has relaunched a campaign against plastic bags of less ...

According to the government, in 2020, 2,312 tonnes (2,548 tons) of plastic were disposed of daily in landfills. Shopping bags are the most common plastic waste. Last October, the Legislative ...