Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

The longer a policy was in place, the longer the behaviors spurred by those regulatory prohibitions persisted, the ...

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 ...

You don't have to go out a buy a new bath mat if yours is looking worse for wear. Simply take some unused plastic bags and ...

People wound up buying more plastic.” Che added store customer had been repurposing the free grocery bags al as liners for ...

There are currently 25 “reusable” grocery store-style bags sitting at my front door, half a dozen large shopping bags and a similar number of bags with dividers to carry bottles home from the ...

Plus, New Zealand became the first nation to ban both plastic shopping bags and plastic produce bags. As for the California legislation, "we've known for a long time that plastic bags create ...

While a January 2024 study shows that similar bans across the country have cut single-use plastic bag consumption significantly, many reusable shopping bag options are not particularly sustainable.

Supermarket chain SPAR Hungary has introduced recyclable shopping bags made from the company’s plastic waste in its stores. The company says it uses 150 tonnes of plastic waste each year to ...

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 ...

RAWALPINDI: After a break of six months, the district administration has relaunched a campaign against plastic bags of less ...