Dubai: Oman is set to roll out the third phase of its ambitious national ban on single-use plastic shopping bags on July 1, ...

You can bring your own shopping bags to Costco if you please, but be prepared to have an employee give them a once-over at ...

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

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

If you’re grabbing a drink in Edmonton’s entertainment districts, odds are it’ll be served in a single-use plastic cup — ...

By Times’ Junior Journalist Jianna Kapoor Did you know plastics can take from 20 to 500 years to decompose? About two million ...

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

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

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

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.

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