New technique turns plastic bags into weapon against dangerous chemical: 'A serious social problem'

Scientists have developed a method that will allow plastic waste to be used in chemical reactions that make toxic compounds ...
The Gazette

LETTERS: Before cheap plastic bags; a fantasy void of reality

After reading the opinions about the ban on plastic grocery bags, the simplest solution would be to go back to before plastic bags. Grocery stores are enjoying record profits, surely can just go back ...
Fast Company

‘The bottom line is that plastic bag bans work’: New report says billions of bags are eliminated each year

Over the past several years, U.S. cities and states have passed hundreds of policies restricting the sale and distribution of single-use plastic bags. A new report says these laws have largely ...
Post-Bulletin

Seattle votes down fee on plastic, paper bags

SEATTLE — Seattle voters’ rejection of a 20-cent fee on plastic and paper bags represents a sound defeat for other efforts in U.S. cities to limit the use of the throwaway bags, plastics industry ...
ABC News

We put dozens of trackers in plastic bags for recycling. Many were trashed.

Less than 10% of plastic waste is recycled worldwide, data shows. For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, ...
Agri-Pulse

Grocers are sponsoring California’s next plastic bag ban

Grocery store chains, weary of lawsuits, are pushing for legislation to eliminate the use of reusable plastic bags in California. The Legislature is advancing two bills aimed at shifting shoppers to ...
WHYY

Philly food trucks are still giving out plastic bags despite ban, advocates say

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