Every day, my paper comes in a tiny, non-reusable plastic bag that is destined for the landfill. I’d like to see The Times set a better example. Mary Jack, Venice ...

Pittsburgh's plastic bag ban, introduced in October 2023, was designed to address environmental concerns by eliminating ...

For example, Mexico City's ubiquitous street food stalls often use plastic bags to temporarily cover plastic plates, in areas where they have no taps or sinks to wash each plate after use.

The commission sent a letter to CalRecycle and Bonta on Dec. 3, 2021, giving 80 examples of companies selling flexible plastic packaging in California with misleading recyclability claims.

For example, during Clean Ocean Action’s fall 2022 beach cleanups of the New Jersey coast, only a few months after the state ban went into effect, the group gathered 46% fewer single-use plastic ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Say goodbye to plastic grocery bags, because they will soon be a thing of the past in Colorado. Since the start of 2023, stores statewide have had to charge a 10-cent fee for ...

Plastic bags constitute less than two percent of litter, Tierney reports. They take up little room in landfills, and because they do not decompose, they don’t release methane into the atmosphere ...

Monopoly maker Hasbro, for example, has also announced plans to eliminate plastics in its packaging. Among the environmental issues posed by plastic is that it doesn't disintegrate.

When people don’t have free plastic bags to line their kitchen garbage cans, for example, they buy plastic bags, according to Huang. “It doesn’t mean the policy is not good.

Last year, 31.8 million disposable bags were reported to the city, down from 37.25 million the previous year. “We’ve seen a decline of about 5 million (plastic) bags used.

The plastic bag ban applies only to single-use, point-of-sale plastic bags — the kind used to bag your groceries, not trash bags or bags for bulk items, produce or medicine, for example.

Single-use plastic bags will be banned in Pittsburgh, beginning next year. City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure to ban most single-use plastic bags, though there are exceptions ...