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 ...

This year, California updated its plastic bag ban by allowing grocery stores to offer only paper bags at checkout. Will that ...

California sued plastic bag makers for falsely labeling products as recyclable, leading to settlements and a statewide ban.

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 ...

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 ...

With the start of New Jersey’s strict ban on single use plastic bags, it’s not too early to start shopping for the reusable ones you’re going to have to bring to the store Reminders of the coming May ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...

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 ...