HANOI, July 15 (Xinhua) -- Restaurants, coffee shops and beverage outlets in the inner area of Hanoi, Vietnam's capital, will begin piloting a ban on single-use plastics in the fourth quarter of this ...

Single-use plastic bags, a staple of American life, have got to go, the United Nations' top environmental official said Monday. Although recycling bags is on the rise in the United States , an ...

CAIRO, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Egypt launched a national awareness campaign against single-use plastic bags on Sunday. Egypt's Minister of Environment Yasmine Fouad said the initiative aims to achieve ...

An MP’s idea to ban single-use plastic in the public sector and tax plastic bags was met with a familiar response from the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources—plastic pollution will be tackled ...

In 2002, Bangladesh became the first country in the world to ban the production, import, marketing and use of polythene bags, a type of single-use plastic bag. The ban, made through the Bangladesh ...