A new study looks how successful bans on single-use plastic bags are to cut down on pollution. A new study looks how successful bans on single-use plastic bags are to cut down on ...

Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this waste, several American ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind ...