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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

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?

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 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 ...

A new study looks how successful bans on single-use plastic bags are to cut down on pollution. Credit - Photo-Illustration by ...

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants and other retail locations in Oregon, expanding the state’s existing ban on ...