Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy, New York City, and the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag have released a guide for retailers adopting reusable bag service models. The report ...

Closed Loop helped form a Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag and its "Beyond the Bag" initiative in 2020. The effort now includes 15 retail partners representing more than 50,000 stores.

Single-use plastic bags are everywhere—from grocery and department stores to landfills, tree limbs, lakes and oceans. It’s probably because people use an estimated 100 billion of the bags per ...

Now, the retail industry is following suit. Today, Walmart, Target, and CVS Health are announcing the Beyond the Bag Initiative, a plan to reinvent single-use plastic bags.The three companies are ...

Dick's Sporting Goods plans to eliminate plastic bags from its retail stores by 2025. Dick’s Sporting Goods, a sporting goods retailer with headquarters in Pittsburgh, has announced plans to remove ...

Previously unrecycled plastic bags are being turned into refuse sacks thanks to an innovative new process from waste-disposal firm Veolia. The trial scheme sees old shopping bags collected in ...

New Jersey's single-use plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022, is considered the strongest nationwide. ... It is another way in which we have created a closed-loop system, ...

Earlier this week, enormous bales of plastic bags and films were stacked in one corner of a 170,000-square-foot warehouse in a sprawling industrial park on the east edge of the Twin Cities suburb.

The European Outdoor Group’s Single Use Plastic Project (SUPP) has released a new report called ‘Poly Bag Standards’ in a bid to reduce single use plastics throughout the value chain. The new ...