Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

British designer Sophia Webster has teamed up with Waitrose to launch the ultimate 'bag for life' tote bag that captures the ...

It's been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

Plastic bags have a certain nostalgia in some Asian-American communities, both for their designs and as symbols of the thriftiness of reuse. As the bags are now being phased out due to ...

A New York company expanded a previous recall of Siluriformes fish products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety ...

Montgomery County is considering a proposed change to its grocery-bag policy that would ban the use of plastic bags at most stores and double the tax on paper bags to 10 cents.

Keep your plastic bags out of landfills by upcycling them. This easy DIY project turns plastic bags into stunning floral lamps. Here's how to do it.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

Following the repeal, plastic bag purchases fell gradually but failed to return to pre-policy levels even after 18 months — the conclusion of the study’s timeframe.

To the editor: Regarding the environmental damage from plastic and specifically plastic bags, no better illustration of the problem could be made than from two letters printed on Sept. 14.