For decades, New York residents have flung plastic garbage bags onto the sidewalk for pickup. The city is now requiring some ...

When the bags inevitably leak or break open, they spill litter into the street, providing smorgasbords for rats. In the winter, the trash mounds get buried in snow and remain frozen in place for days, ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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.

Smurfit Westrock has launched a new EasySplit Bag-in-Box (BiB) design to address the impending requirements of the EU's ...

The USA market is projected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 2.4% during the forecast period. This growth is ...

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