Under Friday’s announcement, four plastic bag producers — Revolution Sustainable Solutions, Metro Poly, PreZero US Packaging, and Advance Polybag — agreed to stop selling the thicker plastic bags in ...

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 ...

Q: I’ve heard conflicting reports regarding how long it really takes for a plastic grocery bag to decompose. Can you set the record straight? A: Researchers fear that such ubiquitous bags may never ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Technavio has been monitoring the single-use plastic bags market and it is poised to grow by USD 0.66 billion during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of over 1% during the ...

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 ...

Just two weeks remain before New York is set to launch its statewide plastic bag ban experiment, and shoppers, retailers and independently owned businesses like mine still don’t know exactly what to ...

Plastic bag pollution has become a huge environmental problem, prompting some cities and countries to heavily tax or ban the sacks. But what if used plastic bags could be made into higher-value ...

The second time we checked out of a store in Hawaii, I noticed it. Plastic bags weren't on the top of my mind during a recent vacation, but they quickly came to the surface inside a gift shop in ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian government has approved a legislative package that would ban the use of polyethylene bags and ...

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 ...