Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

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 ...

“Finally, with this necessary update to the bag ban, plastic grocery bags will no longer be a threat to sea turtles, birds, and other wildlife in California,” Laura Deehan, state director of ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery ... gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 report prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an ...

and the PE is made domestically from natural gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 report (PDF) prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an industry group, the ...

Morrisons insists there is no reason its paper bag cannot be reused as many times as the plastic one it is replacing, although it depends on how the bag is treated. Cotton bags, despite being the ...

A new law in California will ban plastic bags from being sold in stores such as Target and Walmart from January 2026. The law ...

Billions of plastic bags will now be removed from the waste stream, no longer causing harm as they break down into micro-plastics. Oceans, rivers, marine life and ultimately humans who ingest them ...

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MARKET. YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PLACE TO SEND IT. PLASTIC BAGS. NO CHANCE. THEY GET PICKED OUT AND THROWN INTO A BIN HEADED FOR THEIR FINAL DESTINATION. THERE JUST AREN’T GOOD ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

PETALING JAYA: Some 16 retail chains nationwide have pledged to no longer provide single-use plastic bags to customers from Tuesday (Oct 1), says Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming.