Efforts to reduce plastic waste by banning free grocery bags may have unintended consequences, according to a new study.

The study revealed that the behaviors prompted by the plastic bag regulations persisted even after the rules were no longer ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a ...

A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags, a ...

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 ...

Such are te findings of a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research co-authored ... policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets ...

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 ...

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 ...