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 ...

Philadelphia outlawed plastic checkout bags years ago, but a report has suggested the policy is still not reaching every ...

Have you noticed new grey plastic bags at a FairPrice store recently? Photo by Mothership . Checks by Mothership found that ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

Plastic bags are so ubiquitous they’re almost invisible. We rely on them to carry everything from routine grocery purchases to one-off drugstore runs to food delivery and more. Unless you live ...

A recent Freshwater Science webinar by Ohio Sea Grant was titled “Why Environmentally Conscious Shoppers Don’t Bring Reusable Bags.” Which makes you want to watch if you’ve heard that it’s better to ...

Nine years ago California banned grocery stores from giving out flimsy single-use plastic grocery bags, the first state to do so. And the law has been facing obstacles ever since. Days after it passed ...