Stores usually pay less than a penny per plastic shopping bag, and 3 to 4 cents per paper shopping bag. According to the Grocery Industry Committee on Solid Waste, less than 1 percent of shoppers ...

Assembly Bill 1884 was signed in efforts to reduce plastic pollution and will go into effect on January 1. Brown said plastic pollution kills thousands of marine animals every year. Researchers ...

Up to 904 million pounds of the waste was illegally dumped in the U.S. The United States produced more plastic waste than any other country in the world in 2016 -- about 92.6 billion pounds ...