The most notable of those proposals is the new tax, which would put a surcharge of 5 cents on each plastic bag used at stores ...

In Sindh, a province in Pakistan, officials have instated a complete ban on a common form of pollution: plastic bags. ...

Retailers throw out millions of plastic bags used to transport garments through the supply chain. Anthropologie partnered ...

Body part found near Eyeries to be sent to the North for further specialist work, including radon carbon dating, in attempt ...

The Elgin City Council has directed staff to draft an ordinance banning the use of single-use bags by all retailers other ...

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Jackson Adiyiah Nyantakyi, has cautioned the ...

New York state’s 2020 ban on plastic bags was an effort to address the environmental impacts of plastic waste. Before the ban ...

New Jersey’s plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022 under Governor Phil Murphy, aimed to curb environmental pollution by ...

It’s generally safe to reuse plastic freezer and sandwich bags if they haven't stored raw meat, fish, eggs, or allergens.

While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...