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 ...

It used to be, “Paper or plastic?” but now in Colorado, it’s “How many bags do you want to purchase ... Aurora uses the funds for its shopping cart clean-up initiative and future ...

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 ...

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 ...

22) on the costly and unsanitary grocery bag program forced upon us by our municipal leaders. I was recently down in the USA, down there they put your groceries in clean sanitary plastic bags at ...

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 ...

An audit shows supermarket customers are charged less for plastic-wrapped produce more than 70 per cent of the time, and ...

Drinking from a reusable metal thermos instead of a plastic water bottle is one cheap ... bags in your car or purse so that they’re already available the next time you go grocery shopping.

A supermarket in Choa Chu Kang could not provide plastic bags to customers, even those willing to pay for them, which caused some of them to walk out without buying what they intended to purchase.

Drinking from a reusable metal thermos instead of a plastic water bottle is one cheap ... bags are on their way out. A dozen U.S. states and a growing number of municipalities in other states have ...