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

A pair of researchers examined hundreds of state and local plastic bag policies. Researchers make surprising discovery about states that ban plastic shopping bags: 'May be even more effective' first ...

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

Plastic bag pollution is harmful to both animals and humans. On beaches or other outdoor spaces, plastic pollution can have a negative impact on tourism or the value of spending time in nature ...

As of Sept. 14, 22 states have statewide bag laws or regional plastic laws of some kind. But 16 have laws in place preventing bans or restrictions, according to Romer's PlasticBagLaws.org.

Plastic bags are a huge problem. Some 160,000 of them are used every second. That’s five trillion bags a year. And fewer than 3 per cent are recycled.

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants ...

The banned bags are back. In 2017, Kenya passed a law banning single-use plastic bags — the kind that grocery stores and other vendors give you to hold your purchases.

The state's plastic bag ban, which goes into effect May 4, won't solve all our environmental problems, but experts say it's certainly a good place to start.

Plastic bags replaced by plastic bags. He is the 36-year-old face of the social media campaign that prompted the ban in 2017 and says an imperfect ban is better than none.

They found that plastic-bag litter dropped significantly in areas with bag laws, even as the national share of plastic bags found during cleanups increased to 6.7% in 2023 from 4.5% in 2016.