The idea is simple: Reduce plastic waste by requiring shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. The reality is messy. Plastic bag bans have spread across the nation, but some data suggests that ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...

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 ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

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

Armstrong Williams’ commentary “Are plastic bag bans increasing plastic use?” missed the point of plastic bag bans, which is to remove the bags from circulation in order to decrease litter and ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

More than 100 billion plastic bags are used in America each year. One of the first steps to living an environmentally friendly lifestyle is to eliminate plastic bags from your life. This action can ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When California banned flimsy plastic grocery bags, they were replaced with thicker and more durable versions that could be reused ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...