they make great sustainable alternatives to single-use plastic bags. These containers also work wonders for storing bulk portions of other dry food like lentils, beans, and grains. If you’re one ...

The borough is asking Stroudsburg residents whether they would support a ban on single-use plastic bags at businesses.

California Democrats passed a more sweeping plastic bag ban on all types of plastic grocery bags after reports showed their first ban led to more plastic waste.

the component of most single-use plastic bags; and polypropylene, the stuff of hard plastics, from microwavable dishes to luggage. It also efficiently degrades a mix of these types of plastics.

California state lawmakers have approved legislation that effectively bans all plastic grocery bags. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236, which prohibit grocery stores from offering any bags ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Plastic bags at stores across California could soon become a relic of the past after lawmakers passed two bills that would expand the state’s existing single-use bag b ...

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

Environmental advocates (and a giant inflatable sea turtle) joined the two lawmakers behind a pair of bills to ban plastic bags at grocery stores in a rally yesterday to urge their approval and Gov.

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

Reusable plastic bags and unrecyclable film packaging from Southern California stores and retailers are seen in Laguna Niguel. Jan Dell/Handout via REUTERS Legislation to ban plastic bags from ...

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE. SOME CALIFORNIA LAWMAKERS ARE PUSHING TO COMPLETELY BAN PLASTIC BAGS AT GROCERY STORES. RIGHT NOW, PEOPLE CAN BUY PLASTIC BAGS AT GROCERY STORES FOR $0.10, BUT LAWMAKERS WANT ...

Two years ago, Hartwig and his UC Berkeley team came up with a process for breaking down polyethylene plastic bags into the monomer propylene—also called propene—that could then be reused to ...