New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

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.

SB 243 would have prohibited most New Mexico retailers from handing out single use plastic bags. Exceptions were made for uncooked and take out food from a restaurant or laundry from a dry cleaner.

You can’t take a plastic bag and then make another plastic bag with the same properties out of it,” chemistry researcher John Hartwig of the University of California, Berkeley said in 2022 ...

Anybag, a company in New York that uses plastic ... of the bags to extend a short curtain in her Brooklyn home. “I realized that if I had more, I could have made the entire curtain out of ...