Plus, New Zealand became the first nation to ban both plastic shopping bags and plastic produce bags. As for the California ...

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning ...

Not content with banning single-use plastic bags, California lawmakers have now banned all plastic shopping bags at grocery ...

If you're planning on going grocery shopping in California, best to take your own bag. That's the implied message from state governor, Gavin Newsom, who announced that from 2026, plastic bags will ...

A whale’s chances of living were greatly reduced because of a plastic bag found inside its stomach. A dwarf sperm whale calf stranded on a St. Johns County beach in September. The four-foot-long, ...

Problem Manhattan plastic surgeon Ammar Mahmoud — who’s accused of turning a model into a “sex slave” — was spotted cavorting ...

Several major retailers are offering paper bags to customers after Ottawa banned single-use plastic ones. But ...

Plastic pollution has become a major global environmental crisis. Millions of plastic or polythene bags are used and discarded each year, contributing to the pollution of land, rivers, and oceans.

1. Give up plastic bags. Take your own reusable ones to the store. A trillion plastic shopping bags are used worldwide every year, and 100 billion in the United States alone—that’s almost one ...

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER #1: In San Francisco, those ubiquitous plastic shopping bags are being ordered to get out of town. MCCLURG: Then in 2014, the entire state ...

The bag ban on the ballot in Bozeman, regardless of the outcome, could spark greater interest in state preemption laws that ...

Don't through away those plastic bags! Reuse them, turn your old shopping bags into a cool new kite by following these instructions. Feed some string through a new straw (Leaving about 10cm either ...