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 ...

Gavin Newsom’s desk. Both bills target use of the thicker, plastic film alternative shopping bag, which was originally ...

The fee for plastic shopping bags in England will be doubled to 10p and extended to all shops from April 2021. Small retailers - those employing 250 people or fewer - will no longer be exempt ...

Japan's campaign to get customers to sack the use of plastic shopping bags by making stores charge for them is working, an Environment Ministry survey showed. During a single week, 72 percent of ...

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning ...