California adopted its first plastic bag ban a decade ago, creating rules that lawmakers said would be a model for reducing plastic pollution nationwide. Instead, because of loopholes in the law, ...

To draw their conclusions, the researchers first quantified plastic bag sales by analyzing barcode scanner data on consumer purchases. The Dallas City Council imposed a 5-cent fee for single-use ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Some cities are requiring residents to put food waste in plastic bags. We follow the food waste journey to understand why.

They quantified plastic bag sales by analyzing barcode scanner data ... and Jihoon Hong at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. The study contributes to a growing body ...

Citing a drop in plastic bag use over the last few years, Fairfax County, Virginia, leaders said the plastic bag tax is ...

They quantified plastic bag sales by analyzing barcode scanner data ... and Jihoon Hong at W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. The study contributes to a growing body ...

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 ...

Fairfax County's plastic bag tax is proving to be an effective tool in reducing plastic bag usage, according to data recently released by the county.

A new study found that policies to curtail the use of single-use plastic bags in grocery stores and other retail outlets in Austin and Dallas, Texas, resulted in people buying more plastic bags ...