New Jersey’s plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022 under Governor Phil Murphy, aimed to curb environmental pollution by ...

The Sixth Circuit upheld a Michigan federal court’s denial of qualified immunity to a prison warden on an estate’s ...

All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think. Credit...Photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Supported by By Rachel Nuwer With ...

Local governments are currently forbidden from banning, limiting or taxing the use or sale of plastic bags, bottles and more.

Ten years on, the plastic bag levy has largely been hailed a success - but has it actually helped the planet? Two experts go ...

If you think that there isn't all that much you can do with that big pile of plastic shopping bags that's started to ...

Online fashion retailers delivered 941 million plastic bags to UK shoppers last year alone, equating to 2.6 million bags every day, widening the gap between high-street and online retail in ...

forum suggested most children’s party goodie bags are “full of plastic crap that’s never played with and terrible for the environment”. Almost three-quarters (73%) of parents agreed.

Consumer Council found that five of the 11 online retailers they checked did not ask customers to pay HK$1 per plastic bag, which is required by law The government must give guidance to online ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

Most of us use products that expose us to microplastics each and every day. In fact, it’s thought that our food, our drinks, and our plastic packaging can cause us to ingest tens of thousands of ...

Bags are bigger than ever in 2025 — and in more ways than one. With the musical chairs of creative directors among luxury fashion houses, designer items are becoming more and more exclusive, and ...