The paper bags will be available in eight stores as part of a two-month trial. The supermarket chain said reducing plastic was their customers' top environmental concern. Paper bags remain popular ...

The study revealed that the behaviors prompted by the plastic bag regulations persisted even after the rules were no longer ...

One British company that makes so-called "Oxo-biodegradable" bags said they break down in the environment "in the same way as a leaf, only quicker". The technology is now being widely used across ...

Banning the bag has been the war cry of the environmentally conscious for years, but doing so is but the first step to protecting the environment. Queensland University of Technology’s Gary Mortimer ...

Plastic bags are an environment disaster; they do not naturally decompose, they choke marine life, they clog drains, they fill our landfills ,they are habitats of mosquitoes and burning them ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

Significantly, the behaviors spurred by the plastic bag rules continued after the rules were no longer in place. And some ...