Daiso, an affordable retail chain known for their Japanese inspired home decor, stationery, snacks, and more, is opening stores in Minnesota. The Woodbury location is having a grand opening ...

Photograph by Andria Lo, National Geographic I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. In the few years since that ban was enacted, I still see plastic thank-you ...

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New Jersey's plastic bag ban resulted in tripled plastic bag production due to the switch to thicker polypropylene bags. Retailers are profiting significantly from bag fees, while consumers face ...

The state previously prohibited plastic bags from Monday to Wednesday and charged RM1 for each plastic bag on Thursdays and Fridays. Penang’s ‘No Free Plastic Bag’ campaign in 2009 made it ...

The Montgomery County Council on Tuesday adopted a ban on plastic shopping bags at most stores and doubled the tax on paper bags to 10 cents — steps that, according to a Washington Post ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

The Guam Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday deliberated the definitions of "biodegradable plastic bag" and "compostable bag" to effectively enforce the island's plastic bag ban.

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California’s plastic bag waste, despite a 2014 law that was designed to ...