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 ...

(The Hill) — 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 ...

(The Hill) — 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 ...

Shocking video from a Las Vegas high school shows a half-dozen cops carrying a violent, tied-up teen off campus with a plastic-bag “spit mask” over his head while his classmates taunt and jeer.

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 to these whales, plastic junk floating in the ocean may also “sound” just like a delicious squid. A new study suggests plastic debris like shopping bags bear remarkably similar “echoes ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail ... in Osaka in June 2019, presided over an agreement that pledged to ...

“Between 2017 and 2023, there was over a 50% decrease in the amount of plastic bags in the waste stream,” Montayne said. California won’t know whether its new law is successful for more than ...

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 ...

It was a different scene at a pharmacy in the same area, where none of the 17 customers who emerged over 30 minutes had a plastic bag. According to the Environmental Protection Department ...