There is a growing awareness about the negative effects. Lawmakers move forward on bill banning common grocery store item: ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

California’s ban on single-use plastic grocery bags worked. But it inadvertently created a new plastic problem — those supposedly reusable and recyclable thicker bags that simply replaced the ...

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

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?