When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

The law banned plastic bags as of Jan. 1, 2021, and a paper bag ban is set to kick in effective July 1. Lujan on Friday said high-end retailers were worried that a ban on high-quality shopping ...

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

‘These plastic bags and bottles are really choking us. They have locked all drainages and sewage systems. As we stand here today, Garissa Town is flooding with sewer water,” he said.

"And by 2025, those five grocery bags of plastic are going to be ten bags," she says. That would be 155 million tons a year if present garbage management practices remain the same.

A 2024 research report found that “In the last 20 years, 12 states covering more than one-quarter of the U.S. population have prioritized reducing plastic waste by banning plastic bags.” ...

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants and other retail locations in Oregon, expanding the state’s existing ...

From 2018 to May 2025, NMC's nuisance detection squad (NDS) cracked down on over 1.66 lakh establishments, seizing over 75,000kg banned single-use plastic bags and collecting fines exceeding Rs2 ...

POLICE are urgently searching for a 15-year-old girl who has been missing for eight days after vanishing with just a plastic bag. Bayan was last spotted in the Enstone area of Skelmersdale just aft… ...

Grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores will get to keep 20% of the revenue generated by Richmond’s 5-cent plastic bag tax, which will go into effect on Jan. 1.

Instead of a purse, Hoda Kotb brought a plastic bin to her Joy 101 launch party. ... Hoda Used a Plastic Container Instead of a Bag at an Event — With a Note From Daughter Haley.

I kneel, pulling out a small bag of treats. They inch closer. They don’t belong to me, but at that moment, they’re mine. Some follow me home, shadows trailing behind. When I enter my unit, the scent ...