COATESVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) -- There is a new company with a mission to clean up our communities in style. Its name is JAHACO, ...

No country receives more discarded plastic from wealthy countries, but shipments from the United States are no longer welcome ...

Dubai: As Oman has rolled out the third phase of its plastic bag ban on Tuesday, July 1, the country’s Environment Authority ...

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

Banning bags, along with other plastic packaging, is the most commonly used remedy to rein in plastic waste. So far, 115 nations have taken that approach, but in different ways. In France, bags ...

U.S. coastal areas with plastic bag bans or fees saw significant reductions in plastic bag pollution — but plastic waste as a ...

More than 600 bag policies, along with records from more than 45,000 shoreline cleanups between 2017 and 2023, were reviewed by researchers to see whether implementing bans or fees on plastic bags ...

To make your own stunning DIY pendant lamp, start by cutting open your bags. If they have handles, don't bother removing them; you can hide them easily. Snip the open bags in half along the seam at ...

Dear Heloise: I have discovered a splendid use for the plastic bags that contain dry cereal in paperboard boxes. In recent years, these bags have evolved to be heavier, leakproof and puncture ...

Plastic bag regulations – bans and consumer fees – have led to meaningful reductions in plastic litter on U.S. shorelines, according to a new study. Plastic pollution has become a pervasive ...

One in three U.S. residents are seeing less single-use plastic bags due to new policies, according to research published in Science on Thursday, June 19. Researchers found that bans and fees reduced ...

The earliest plastic bag policies in the U.S. were implemented around 2007, researchers say, but an uptick in the mid-2010s more directly led to the policies analyzed in the study.