There was a time when breakfast felt like an adventure. A plastic ring, a mini submarine, or a small comic book waited inside ...

The report seems like a deep dive for city councils and state officials in crafting bag laws. For example, it praised a New Jersey law that eliminated both single-use paper and plastic bags in ...

Mayor Craig Greenberg is encouraging people in Louisville to make small changes towards reducing single-use plastic consumption.

Jenna Kowaleski column: Meaningful change is in the (plastic) bag There are much larger, sweeping laws other than a bag fee that impact us. Unseen but there, they shape our behavior.

But how effective are these plastic bag bans and the accompanying fees, which are meant to encourage reuse, paper bags or simply hand-carrying products out of a store?

A study published in Science Journal found that plastic bag policies, such as bans and fees, have been effective in reducing plastic bag litter by 25-47% and potentially protecting wildlife from en… ...

New Jersey's 2022 single-use plastic bag ban has significantly reduced plastic waste. A proposed bill (A-5153/S-3711) seeks to fund a reusable bag program for low-income residents. The program ...

A new study finds that regional plastic bag bans in the U.S. significantly reduce coastal plastic bag litter compared with areas without such policies. Single-use plastic bags are one of the most ...

A new study suggests plastic bag fees could be more impactful than bans in limiting plastic bag litter on shorelines.

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports from New York City on a New York Times analysis showing that plastic bag bans and fees across the U.S. are effectively reducing ...

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level regulation… ...