The longer a policy was in place, the longer the behaviors spurred by those regulatory prohibitions persisted, the ...

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 ...

Learn more about the art of shopping at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Watch Artist Aymar Ccopacatty, National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program participant, show ...

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.

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 ...

Coloradans have faced this question for almost a year since the state banned single-use plastic bags. And if you either overshopped for the reusable bags you brought or forgot them in the car, you’ll ...

Sweden’s conservative government today eliminated a 25-cent tax on plastic shopping bags. The tax was introduced in 2020 to meet the European Union’s consumption target for plastic bags, and by 2023 ...

While the letter of the law stipulated that bags of any kind containing plastic, including reusable shopping bags, were to be prohibited, regulators at the New York Department of Environmental ...

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