A new book shows how residents of wealthier nations are jeopardizing the health and safety of other parts of the planet.

The star of a press conference at the city dump Thursday afternoon was an unassuming green plastic bag that, in the ...

At three of his stores, he has stopped handing out plastic bags altogether, charging customers a 25-cent fee for a reusable bag, which are more expensive for him to stock up on. But at the other ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

On July 1, Japan joined a growing list of countries to implement a mandatory plastic bag surcharge. It's part of a national effort to reduce plastic waste in a country that the U.N. says has the ...

Consumer Council found that five of the 11 online retailers they checked did not ask customers to pay HK$1 per plastic bag, which is required by law The government must give guidance to online ...

BUTTERWORTH: Penang has introduced a daily no-plastic-bag campaign starting on Saturday (March 1), compelling consumers to use only reusable bags for their purchases. The campaign, known as "No ...