Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use ...

Now that the ordinance has passed, it is clear that there will be more legal challenges before it can be implemented.

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 ...

Here are affordable ways to reduce the plastic you consume while shopping and eating, enjoying a healthier lifestyle that’s ...

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 ...

Paris - Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans, and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed ...

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

durable and cheap plastic bags was the choice of traders and consumers. Mek Yah Rahman, a 67-year-old stallholder in Batu Caves, Selangor, told Bernama that she preferred to use plastic bags to ...

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 ...

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 ...