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

The innovative BeBot robot uses electric power to remove pollution from shorelines, covering 20-30 times more area than ...

Areas with bans or fees saw a 25 to 47 percent drop in plastic bag litter on shorelines compared to places without such ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have ...

But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and riverbanks. Plastic bag fees ...

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

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University looked at plastic bag bans and fees in jurisdictions across the United States to gauge their effectiveness. The researchers found ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

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

The debris arrives in the rockets’ wake: melted plastics, aluminum and pieces of blue adhesive. It all ends up stranded on ...