Regulations imposed to protect the environment may continue to have impacts even after they are repealed. And those lingering ...

Plus, New Zealand became the first nation to ban both plastic shopping bags and plastic produce bags. As for the California legislation, "we've known for a long time that plastic bags create ...

California’s plastic grocery bag waste actually increased after the first ban went into effect, according to the state’s ...

Although you may store reusable shopping bags to take to the grocery store in order to avoid using disposable plastic ones, ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in ...

Supermarket chain SPAR Hungary has introduced recyclable shopping bags made from the company’s plastic waste in its stores. The company says it uses 150 tonnes of plastic waste each year to ...

ST JOHNS, Fla. — A whale’s chances of living were greatly reduced because of a plastic bag found inside its stomach. A dwarf sperm whale calf stranded on a St. Johns County beach in September.

ROCKVILLE, Md. (7News) — Shoppers in Montgomery County may no longer have the option to use plastic bags in the future. New legislation introduced this past week would ban all plastic bags.

Across the EU in 2022, each person used on average 66.6 lightweight plastic carrier bags.This marked a decrease of 10.8 bags (-14 per cent) per person compared with 2021. In total, 29.8 billion ...

The aim was to reduce Scotland's litter problem by getting people to switch to reusing shopping bags rather ... more than 70% of people still see plastic bag litter in their local area.