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.

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

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

Plastic shopping bags were a rarity in the 1970s, but were rapidly adopted by supermarkets and restaurants around the world. In Chinatown, ... The reusable bag, perhaps, ...

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 ...

In order to ensure implementation of the province-wide ban on plastic bags, the Sindh Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has intensified enforcement operations across Sindh. A total of 657 ...

Although an official ordinance to ban single-use plastic bags in Queen Anne’s County did not pass due to a tie vote recently, ...

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 ...