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You may unsubscribe at any time. Under the current ban, which became law in 2014, California stores have been allowed to offer customers thicker plastic bags that are supposedly more recyclable.

Deep-diving toothed whales wash up dead with stomachs full of plastic and prey alike. Their built-in sonar likely can’t tell the difference. Two adult sperm whales swim side by side in Dominica ...

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 from ...

The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen to 72 percent ... The environmental group Greenpeace Japan rolled out a new service online, “Goodbye Waste,” a map that ...

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And he said the most common item they find is plastic bags, including the thick ones sold in grocery stores. It’s also partly because even the people who live in LA and show up at 8 a.m. to pick ...

Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 requiring that those thin plastic bags we tear off the roll in grocery stores to bag loose food items ... Other certified compostable bags specifically designed for food ...

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 ...

Asked why the federal government didn't also ban paper along with plastic bags, Environment Canada spokesperson Samantha Bayard responded by email that its regulations focus on harmful plastic ...