Photograph by Andria Lo, National Geographic I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. In the few ... a wiggly “happy bean” cartoon mascot and traditional ...

Apparently it might not have been the last straw. Or plastic bag, for that matter. Just months away from New Jersey reaching three years of banning single-use plastic bags in most stores and paper ...

Shifting tides: Heavyweight reusable shopping bags were supposed to solve a problem. TheyǃÙve created a different one When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic ...

Cartoons and sketches drawn by a hero Lancashire soldier during the Battle of the Somme have been found in a plastic bag at the bottom ... "He just kept his drawings to himself.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — A ban on plastic bags is coming soon as the City of Annapolis' Plastic Bag Reduction Act is set to begin on Jan. 22, 2025. The Annapolis City Council passed The Plastic ...

“People wound up buying more plastic.” To draw their conclusions, the researchers first quantified plastic bag sales by analyzing barcode scanner data on consumer purchases. California ...

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 ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

SINGAPORE - Japanese retail chain Don Don Donki will stop the sale of plastic bags at its 16 outlets in Singapore from Oct 1. This shift comes as part of the franchise’s ongoing sustainability ...