New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered ...

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

Researchers say plastic bags are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along coastlines. The post ...

Plastic bag fees and bans are effective in limiting debris on U.S. shorelines, a new study reports, but even places with bag ...