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.

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

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

Melting a few layers of plastic bags together with an iron is a simple way to make sheets of water-resistant fabric to ...

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

So after years of experimentation, it’s back to plastic. The good news is that Giant Eagle says its new plastic bags are made of 75% recycled material.

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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

The grocery chain is replacing its fabric reusable bags with new single-use plastic bags made from 75% recycled material. The move comes after low customer adoption of the reusable options.

It’s both easy and hard to miss plastic grocery bags—easy because they’re strong, light, free, and they can double as little trash bags once you’ve got them home and emptied out your groceries, and ...