Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...
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 ...
California, US, governor Gavin Newsom signed a law yesterday (22 September) to phase out plastic shopping bags at grocery store checkouts from 2026. Passed by state legislators last month ...
She says she and two roommates recently tossed 175 reusable bags — collected via grocery delivery and in-store shopping ... still remain in effect. The plastic bag ban has had an unintended ...