When two Texas cities prohibited stores from giving away plastic grocery bags for free ... “In each case, behaviors that weren’t directly targeted by the policy — like purchasing more ...

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 ...

(The Hill) — 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 ...

When California’s first single-use plastic ... in grocery stores. It’s also partly because even the people who live in LA and show up at 8 a.m. to pick up trash don’t always reuse bags.

There are currently 25 “reusable” grocery store-style ... positions that don’t recognize the reality of the situation. Plastic is always bad, even paper bags are bad to some.

On Monday, the local grocery chain announced it was ditching paper sacks in favor of cheaper plastic bags due to rising costs of paper sacks. Crest said recycling bins will be placed at each ...

EU member states have taken progressive steps over the past decade to reduce the use of lightweight plastic bags, including imposing additional charges or levies and promoting the adoption of ...

We could choose to not use a plastic bag when visiting a physical store,” Tam said. “Why couldn’t we have such an option when shopping online?” The council also suggested that online ...