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 ...
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 ...
The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen to 72 percent, up from 30 percent before the charge was introduced, according to the Environment Ministry. The charge has ...
An audit shows supermarket customers are charged less for plastic-wrapped produce more than 70 per cent of the time, and conservationists say it's hurting the environment.