Those bags were allowed under a 2019 bill that blocked grocers and restaurants from handing out single-use plastic bags at checkout. Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill that would ban the use ...

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will start action against single-use plastic users after conducting awareness for a week. This time, the BMC is considering collecting fines from ...

“Have at least 25% of our beverages worldwide by volume sold in refillable/returnable glass or plastic bottles or in fountain dispensers ... to double down on single-use plastic – by killing ...

Or you order takeout for dinner and save the black plastic container to pack your lunch the next day. Reuse is one of the core rules of sustainability. But should you be reusing these single-use ...

Northwell Valley Stream on Long Island is swapping out single use plastic water bottles in exchange for reusable ones. FOX 5 NY’s Jodi Goldberg shows us how the change will help the hospital as ...

You have microplastics in you. Did you know? Between checkout at a grocery store to the refrigerator of your home, single-use plastic bags are utilized for only minutes before being discarded.

More than 14,000 Bozeman residents voted in favor of establishing a plastic ordinance banning single-use plastic bags and polystyrene foam packaging in the city, with approximately 63% of votes ...

The commissary at Yokosuka Naval Base is delaying its phase-out of plastic bags until further notice. The store announced in May that it would stop offering the single-use bags at its checkout ...

Data shows Bangladesh generates around 87,000 tons of single-use plastics annually, of which 96% are directly discarded as garbage. Lack of awareness has led to the collection of plastic waste all ...

Breckenridge bans single-use plastics 02:56 Breckenridge's ordinance banning single-use plastics -- like plastic forks and plastic water bottles -- has entered its second phase as of July 1. A ...

Kolkata: Jadavpur University on Thursday issued a circular re-emphasizing a ban on the use of plastic, especially single-use plastic, on the university campus, in response to a demonstration by a ...

Each minute, by some estimates, the equivalent of a garbage truck full of plastic waste ends up in the ocean. Most single-use plastic ... would have to rely more on labels.) Having one large ...