ELMIRA, N.Y. (WETM) – Beginning March 1st, plastic bags will no longer be provided at grocery stores and other retail outlets to shoppers in New York State. The bag waste reduction law states that all ...

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 ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind ...

If you're sick of the unused plastic grocery bags scattered throughout your kitchen, upcycle old cans for a DIY dispenser ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White plastic bags filled with groceries - Natalie_board/Getty Images While they're now banned in some states, plastic bags are ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...