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

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually ...

Plastic bag bans have spread across the nation, ... professor of sustainable systems at the School for Environment Sustainability at the University of Michigan. ...

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 ...

The Austin City Council, on the other hand, had a single-use bag ban in place for five years, rather than five months: from 2013 until 2018, when the Texas Supreme Court eliminated such ...

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have ...

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.

In 2021, Californians discarded 5.89 tons of plastic bags per 1,000 people, compared with 4.08 tons of plastic bags per 1,000 people in 2014, according to an analysis by CalPIRG.

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

“I was surprised to see how effective plastic bag policies have been in reducing plastic bag shoreline litter,” says Kimberly Oremus, associate professor in the School of Marine Science and ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.