July is Plastic Free Month, a global initiative encouraging us to reduce our reliance on single-use plastics. One of the ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's shorelines, the study found.

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses.

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… ...

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.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which ...

Here we are, nearly four years later, and I’m still offered a plastic bag nearly every time I visit an establishment that serves food. So, what happened?

Grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores will get to keep 20% of the revenue generated by Richmond’s 5-cent plastic bag tax, which will go into effect on Jan. 1.

A Pennsylvania state senator is pushing to outlaw single-use plastic bags at retail stores across the entire commonwealth.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — There could soon be a tax on disposable plastic bags within the city of Richmond. During a regular meeting on Wednesday, May 21, the Richmond City Council’s Finance and ...

Plastic film recycling is real, and expanding recycling infrastructure and promoting consumer education are more effective than bans.

Giant Eagle announced that their stores are going back to plastic grocery bags. The new plastic bags are made of 75% recycled plastic.