As governments move to ban plastic grocery bags, how much of an impact do they have on the world around us? The answer is both surprising and substantial.

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 ...

The settlement follows a state investigation into plastic bags sold as recyclable despite limited evidence they could be ...

A report from Freedonia Custom Research found that New Jersey’s single-use bag ban, while dramatically cutting the number of disposable bags in ...

Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this waste, several American ...

Limited mobility for nearly all Americans has still meant regular trips to the grocery store. That's right in the wheelhouse for Crown Poly Inc., which provides supermarkets with the Pull-N-Pak ...

It’s a great time for New Yorkers to start investing in reusable grocery bags. Late last month, a state supreme court judge in Albany upheld a statewide ban on plastic carryout bags after considering ...

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 ...