Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive ...

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic shopping bags at either the national or subnational level. In the U.S., 611 ...

The measure, which mandated a charge on all single-use plastic bags in supermarkets, came into force in October 2015.

West Virginia Republican Shelley Moore Capito, chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and Oregon ...

Researchers analyzed data from thousands of beach cleanups and cross-referenced that with state policies on plastic bags. They were happy with what they learned.

You take your reusable grocery bags to the supermarket every week, but are you remembering to clean them? Read more to find ...

Plastic pollution in Nepal is reaching dangerous levels, choking rivers, clogging drains, and piling up in landfills as ...

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

Most of us are guilty of ignoring that questionable layer of grot building up inside our water bottles. Katie Rosseinsky ...