Bangladesh became the first nation on Earth to ban single-use plastic bags. Since then, plastic pollution has gotten worse. To find a biodegradable replacement, the government turned to jute ...

“It’s time for us to get rid of these plastic bags and continue to move forward with a more pollution-free environment.” Sen. Blakespear and Sen. Ben Allen, D-Santa Monica and Bauer-Kahan ...

And these bags are 100 per cent biodegradable and pollution-free. Plastic bags are a huge problem. Some 160,000 of them are used every second. That’s five trillion bags a year. And fewer than 3 per ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste ... This means more plastic in our oceans, more greenhouse gas emissions and more toxic air pollution, which exacerbates the climate ...

Period. Bar none,” Savoca says, referring to straws, water bottles, and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported—so far—to have eaten or become entangled in plastic.

In a major step towards sustainability, Earthnest, co-founded by Arun Kar and Chintan Panara, British entrepreneurs of Indian ...