Conveyors send mixed plastic into a device that will shred and then recycle them at recycling plant in Vernon on Jan. 24, 2014. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) Ever since their invention in 1959, ...

SACRAMENTO — California’s environmental-friendly lawmakers were quite proud of themselves when, in 2014, they passed a first-in-the-nation ban on stores from handing out so-called single-use plastic ...

New Jersey’s Plastic Pollution Reduction Act is an absolute success. In less than a year from the law’s May 2022 implementation, ghost plastic bags fell off the top 10 list of most common litter items ...

The amount of plastic from shopping bags has gone up in Washington despite a ban on single-use plastic bags, according to a ...

Imagine going to the beach for a swim only to find trash in the sand and plastic bottles bobbing on the waves. “As surfers, we’re at the beach and in the water, where everything tends to end up,” said ...

A bill to ban plastic bags in Baltimore City has been more than a decade in the making -- and debate Tuesday focused on pollution and business.The measure, which was introduced in 2006, is moving a ...

As Allegheny County considers a plastic bag ban, we wanted to dig deeper into a recent study. Researchers looked at the impact of New Jersey’s statewide ban, which started in 2022. They concluded that ...

Local residents consume at least 7 million disposable plastic bags each year. Manufacturing this amount of plastic requires approximately 100,000 gallons of petroleum. Using something ...

BEIJING — Declaring war on the “white pollution” choking its cities, farms and waterways, China is banning free plastic shopping bags and calling for a return to the cloth bags of old — steps largely ...

In all the debate regarding whether or not Portsmouth should implement a plastic bag ban, nobody has spoken in favor of plastic bag pollution, which is both an environmental hazard and an eyesore. We ...

Ocean plastic has hit a critical point in 2025, threatening turtles, whales, and seabirds. See which solutions still offer hope.

Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous with shopping. For many people, it’s difficult to imagine a quick grocery run without the crinkle of a plastic bag, and even ...