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

Biodegradable plastic bags and garbage bags are available at major retailers. Today, biodegradable materials are easily accessible. You can order your biodegradable bags online or buy them in-store.

Areas with bans or fees saw a 25 to 47 percent drop in plastic bag litter on shorelines compared to places without such policies. Fees may be more effective than bans: While all policy types helped, ...

Through a weaving process that requires about two hours per mat, 350 plastic grocery bags, on average, are cut into strips that are then intertwined together to produce a ground covering that is ...

Plastic bag waste dropped slightly from 157,395 tons in 2014 to 139,810 in 2018, but then rocketed up to 231,072 tons in 2021, a report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG found. “I remember when ...

Chemists have developed a catalytic process that turns the largest component of today's plastic waste stream, polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that ...

They want the full ban on plastic bags to begin in January 2027 rather than July 2026 as currently written. That’s because a similar bag ban passed in California last year will kick in next January.