Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the ...

A dwarf sperm whale was euthanized after being beached in Florida; a necropsy revealed that it had a large plastic bag in its ...

Oceana/Joseph Pellegrino & St. Johns County Office of Public Affairs A baby whale has died after being found on a Florida beach with a "large plastic bag" in its stomach. Last month, an individual ...

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 ...

Firefighters at Brooklyn Fire Station were forced to use a plastic bag and duct tape to cover a faulty window on one of their ...

Plastic carrier bags account for much less than 10 percent ... In the Kanto region around Tokyo, a group of businesses that includes large companies started “Loop,” a sales system to reuse ...

Per the organization, an animal autopsy later showed that the animal had "a large plastic bag in its main stomach with ...

Falling in line with new California requirements that go into effect in 2026, the Napa County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance Tuesday to ban single-use plastic bags and foodware.

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 ...