The bill would place limits on single-use plastics at restaurants and hotels and ban thicker plastic bags at stores and ...

Oregon Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would ban single-use checkout bags statewide and allow only recycled paper bags.

"It has a role to play." First-of-its-kind facility could transform the future of plastic bags: 'We never said that it is absolutely a no-go' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Banning plastic grocery bags ... risks increasing the use of alternatives that end up doing even more environmental damage, ...

Democrats in Sacramento forbade supermarkets from handing out single-use plastic bags in 2014 and restaurants ... Oil and gas ...

Connecticut has eliminated billions of plastic bags from the economy and ecosystem with a ban on single-use bags. But what do ...

Sunderland said out of the more than 17,000 moves, only 17 times did agency officials rely on a plastic bag since the law was enacted. Some of the reasons, he said, were that the foster youth’s ...

the only nonplastic item is glass bottles. Worldwide, 73 percent of beach litter is plastic: cigarette butts (the filters), bottles and caps, food wrappers, grocery bags, polystyrene containers.

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

o One-gallon clear plastic freezer bag (Ziplock bag or similar). o Logo can only be on one side of the bag. o Small bags, non-clear bags that do not exceed 4.5" x 6.5" in size, with or without a ...