Efforts to reduce plastic waste by banning free grocery bags may have unintended consequences, according to a new study. Researchers found that while these bans initially encouraged people to cut ...

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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 ...

“But that’s not what happened in the data. People wound up buying more plastic.” He added that customers had been repurposing the free grocery bags as liners for household trash bins. What’s the big ...

When two Texas cities prohibited stores from giving away plastic grocery bags for free, the sale of such bags surged in response, according to the study, published in the Journal of Marketing ...

Environmental activists, ordinary people and shop owners said the government should focus on developing suitable and ...

Here’s an initiative by @beautifulbharatorg and the #ZeroWasteCollective to help street vendors go plastic-free! At Bengaluru’s iconic Kadalekayi Parishe (Groundnut Fair), nearly 1 lakh eco-friendly ...

In 2021, Californians threw away more than 231 thousand tons of plastic bags. Although CALPIRG was excited to celebrate the passage of California’s official ban on plastic grocery bags this September, ...