Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered ...

A study published in Science Journal found that plastic bag policies, such as bans and fees, have been effective in reducing ...

There are much larger, sweeping laws other than a bag fee that impact us. Unseen but there, they shape our behavior.

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

Gently used reusable bags are collected, sanitized, and distributed to food banks, pantries, and directly to residents in ...

The regulations on bags that were implemented in the so-called treated areas were all one of three types: outright bans on plastic bags; partial bans permitting thicker, reusable bags that do not ...

Plastic bags have a certain nostalgia in some Asian-American communities, both for their designs and as symbols of the thriftiness of reuse. As the bags are now being phased out due to ...

In the midst of 2020 COVID measures, another change took place in Vermont: A law went into effect banning businesses from offering plastic bags to customers, with paper bags only available for a fee.

Plastic bags are a cancer so ubiquitous, we’ve forgotten how dangerous they are. So let’s talk about it. Here are three reasons we need to do something about single use plastic bags… again.