Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use ...

Turning Plastic Bags into Granules: A Factory Guide. Should you tip on restaurant takeout? Or a coffee order? Here's when ...

Now that the ordinance has passed, it is clear that there will be more legal challenges before it can be implemented.

Food & Wine / Opening the refrigerator and looking at a jumbled mess of plastic containers and disorganized shelves makes ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

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A new study suggests plastic debris like shopping bags bear remarkably similar “echoes” to those of squid—likely due to some combination of their shape, size, degree of weathering ...

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 ...

Single-use plastic shopping bags have been banned since July 1 last year. Stores have not been allowed to provide them to ...

Paris - Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans, and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed ...

In bulk orders of 50 or more, prices can go down to just $1 a bag. In parts of Africa, governments are stepping up to slash ...