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.

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 ...

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

Moreover, the largest reductions in plastic litter occurred in places that had the highest baseline levels of plastic bag pollution, suggesting that these policies are most effective where the ...

On Thursday, Governor Tina Kotek signed a new law banning all plastic bags at checkouts in restaurants, grocery stores, and retail shops starting January 7 of 2027.

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.

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.