Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...

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

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell ...

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

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

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished ... and consume less one-time use plastic or paper products,” said Hai Che, an associate professor ...

which found that a nominal plastic bag fee led many consumers to grab plastic produce bags to use for other items. California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores ...

Plastic carrier bags account for much less than 10 percent of the total. Japan is the world’s second-largest consumer of single-use plastic products on a per capita basis. Greater efforts are ...

When two Texas cities prohibited stores from giving away plastic grocery bags for free ... and consume less one-time use plastic or paper products,” Hai Che, an associate professor at the ...