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 ...

Many stores no longer provide or use plastic bags as a way to make shopping more sustainable, causing many of us to stock up on our reusable bag stash. However, what often starts as one or two bags ...

Students cannot access these bags until the end of the day. Students were reminded to only bring clear, plastic water bottles on school grounds. These changes come after a teenager was discovered ...

These days, we typically see Maine shoppers hauling their purchases in reusable bags ... have cut single-use plastic bag consumption significantly, many reusable shopping bag options are not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clear bags not larger than 12 inches by 6 inches by 12 inches. A logo smaller than 3.4 inches by 4.5 inches is permitted on one side of the bag. One gallon clear plastic sandwich bags. Non-clear ...

There are currently 25 “reusable” grocery store-style bags sitting at my front door, half a dozen large shopping bags and a similar number of bags with dividers to carry bottles home from the ...

Some city councillors in Sudbury, Ont., want alternatives to clear plastic garbage bags for waste diversion Sudbury, Ont. staff propose clear garbage bags as one way to reduce waste at the ...

The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen to 72 percent, up from 30 percent before the charge was introduced, according to the Environment Ministry. The charge has ...