Bangladesh became the first nation on Earth to ban single-use plastic bags. Since then, plastic pollution has gotten worse. To find a biodegradable replacement, the government turned to jute ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste ... This means more plastic in our oceans, more greenhouse gas emissions and more toxic air pollution, which exacerbates the climate ...

And these bags are 100 per cent biodegradable and pollution-free. 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 ...

They made the pledge when Sankofa Second Cycle (SSC), a non-profit organisation, educated them on the effect of plastic pollution on the ... to return plastic bags, especially polythene, to ...