Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law enacted three years ago.

Illinois lawmakers are considering two measures designed to cut down on the use of plastic bags and polystyrene meal ...

New Jersey's single-use plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022, is considered the strongest nationwide. The ban has eliminated over 24 billion plastic bags and 480 million paper bags from the waste ...

Retailers throw out millions of plastic bags used to transport garments through the supply chain. Anthropologie partnered ...

Plastic bags, made from low-density polyethylene (LDPE), pose significant recycling challenges. Unlike rigid plastics such as food trays or bottles, LDPE is hard to sort and process. Plastic bags ...

has taken action against six commercial establishments over the past four days. The civic body has collected fines amounting to Rs 30,000 and seized 36.3 kilograms of plastic bags from violators.

KLANG: The federal government’s initiative to eliminate single-­use plastic bags is timely to rescue Malaysia from severe environmental degradation, says an academic. Universiti Teknologi ...

The cost of a plastic bag will increase in S-Group stores, the cooperative company announced in a press release on Monday morning. The price of a plastic bag will rise to 35 cents in Prisma ...

This includes a five-cent plastic bag tax, enforcement of an existing state law banning balloon releases and enforcing a polystyrene — or styrofoam — ban for food retailers. “All this ...