Plastic bag bans and fees have spread across the United States, and new research says they're doing a good job at cutting down on litter, although some rules work better than others. In ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

It's been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

Give single-use plastic bags a second life as packing material. Use this hack to transform them into packing bubbles, so you can save money and save them from the trash.

California lawmakers have passed a second plastic bag ban after admitting the state's first ban failed its goal of reducing plastic waste. State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, and ...

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 ...

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic shopping bags at either the national or subnational level. In the U.S., 611 ...

A plastic bag along a roadside in Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 25, 2013. Photo: Associated Press Doesn’t everyone put items from the produce department of a grocery store into thin plastic bags?

Novoloop recently raised a $21 million Series B to begin building its first commercial scale plastic upcycling plant.

An 8-year-old boy with a prosthetic leg is getting a ramp at his home made from plastic bags collected from SpartanNash ...