It will spend the rest of its life in a landfill — assuming the landfill can contain it — fragmenting into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic over hundreds of years. Bags became a target ...

An Instagram DIYer showed off a cool method of adding some floral details to mirrors using only some acrylic paint and a ...

When the plastic bags were banned in California ... it breaks into smaller pieces, it gets blown around the world, many different ecosystems. But on the other hand, paper has a much higher ...

The American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance, a trade group ... even though that type of bag was ultimately “just ending up as another piece of garbage.” Sollman said her forthcoming bill ...

The idea is simple: Reduce plastic waste by requiring shoppers to bring their own reusable bags. The reality is messy. Plastic bag bans have spread across the nation, but some data suggests that ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags ...

Animals can eat larger pieces of plastic, Seeley said, which can block their digestive tracts or make it harder for them to get enough nutrients, or get trapped in plastic bags and other debris.

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014 ...

New legislation is going to be introduced in Pennsylvania that is aimed at banning single-use plastic bags throughout the ...

In a dramatic experiment at Plymouth University in Britain, Richard Thompson, a marine scientist who coined the term microplastics, and two of his students fed pieces of a plastic bag to amphipods ...

The average lifespan of any piece of plastic is about 500 years. What's made out of plastic? More than you might imagine. There's the obvious: the milk jugs, grocery bags. But you might not ...

Governor Phil Murphy (D-N.J.) and New Jersey state legislators touted a new law banning plastic and paper shopping bags at stores when they enacted it in 2020. According to a new study ...