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

For half a century, New York City residents have taken out their trash by flinging plastic bags stuffed with stinking garbage ...

On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons.

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

Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed.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

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

Three key arguments have come up time and time again during city council’s ongoing debate on whether the city should mandate the use of clear garbage bags. Privacy ...

People wound up buying more plastic.” Che added store customer had been repurposing the free grocery bags al as liners for household trash bins.” The bag rules, however, most likely changed ...