A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags, a ...
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 ...
It seems the next logical step up from reusable shopping bags, which experts have estimated could save more than 22,000 plastic bags over their lifetime. UK retailers like M&S, Morrisons ...
Following complaints about reusable Walmart blue bags piling up in homes, the retail giant is phasing ... on certain single-use plastics, including shopping bags. The regulations are being ...
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 ...
Plastic bags have displaced their paper counterparts as the main choice for carrying shopping items but over the last decade a global backlash against ... stores had implemented the ban but customer ...