Retail is littered with plastic: polybags, pallet wraps, films, mailers, hangers, bags, tags and more. While many of fashion’s retailers are making strides toward greater sustainability, the plastic ...

Boys played amid stinky puddles and dodged trash sludge oozing from plastic bags carpeting a muddy riverbed in Saidpur, a village that connects to Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, by a narrow road. "God ...

Thurston County is pushing effort to reduce the number of plastic bags used and you have a chance to make yourself heard. The county is holding a "Community Conversations on Plastic Bags" series of ...

A Los Angeles Times editorial is asking for a "do over" in the plastic bag ban that actually led to more plastic waste, according to a recent report. After California became the first state in 2016 to ...

When Washington commissioned a study on its plastic bag ban and it came back with inconvenient results, officials decided to ...

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 ...

As expected, the leftist, environmentally misled LNP | LancasterOnline Editorial Board condemned single-use plastic bags as environmental pollution (“Bagging plastic,” Aug. 16 editorial).

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank estimates ...

About 500 billion plastic bags are used worldwide each year, and that number is only going up. That is more than 70 times the number of people there are in the world. Plastic bags bring about a lot of ...

The Golden State has banned all plastic bags from grocery stores because, as Democratic state Sen. Catherine Blakespear said, “We are literally choking our planet with plastic waste.” Yes, literally ...