These days, when you head to a shop to buy clothes, most brands package your purchases in a recyclable paper bag, which looks more eco-friendly than plastic. But behind the scenes—in back rooms that ...

Armstrong Williams’ commentary “Are plastic bag bans increasing plastic use?” missed the point of plastic bag bans, which is to remove the bags from circulation in order to decrease litter and ...

Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this waste, several American ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

Just two weeks remain before New York is set to launch its statewide plastic bag ban experiment, and shoppers, retailers and independently owned businesses like mine still don’t know exactly what to ...

Limited mobility for nearly all Americans has still meant regular trips to the grocery store. That's right in the wheelhouse for Crown Poly Inc., which provides supermarkets with the Pull-N-Pak ...

The choice is about to disappear for New York shoppers. The state's ban on single-use plastic bags — which prohibits retailers from handing them out to customers starting March 1 — has provoked mixed ...

The tiny waxworm went from zero to hero in 2017 when researchers discovered the caterpillar could potentially help solve one of the world’s most pressing environmental problems: plastic waste. The ...

But a youth-led initiative called PlastiFund is turning this pollution into an opportunity by partnering with recycling ...

New York's ban on plastic bags can be enforced from today, October 19—more than seven months after the law went into effect. The new Bag Waste Reduction Law took effect in New York State on March 1, ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...