The longer a policy was in place, the longer the behaviors spurred by those regulatory prohibitions persisted, the ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

Learn more about the art of shopping at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Watch Artist Aymar Ccopacatty, National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program participant, show ...

Plus, New Zealand became the first nation to ban both plastic shopping bags and plastic produce bags. As for the California legislation, "we've known for a long time that plastic bags create ...

While a January 2024 study shows that similar bans across the country have cut single-use plastic bag consumption significantly, many reusable shopping bag options are not particularly sustainable.

A series of studies led by Searious Business examines the barriers and levers for reusable packaging systems across five ...

1. Give up plastic bags. Take your own reusable ones to the store. A trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide every year, and 100 billion in the United States alone—that’s almost one ...

One of the few plants in the U.S. that accept shopping bags, it has more than doubled the tonnage it recycles in the past 20 years. The conveyor belt is carrying mixed plastic to an optical sorter.

RAWALPINDI: After a break of six months, the district administration has relaunched a campaign against plastic bags of less ...

While the letter of the law stipulated that bags of any kind containing plastic, including reusable shopping bags, were to be prohibited, regulators at the New York Department of Environmental ...