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 ...

Meghan Markle's Netflix project showed her "take pretzels out of a labeled bag and put them into a new bag…then label it." ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) has urged people to use cloth bags instead of the plastic ones and has installed two clog ...

Thane: The civic body, Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC), has launched an initiative encouraging the use of cloth bags over ...

The Hong Kong government’s new HK$1 levy on all types of plastic bags, an increase from the previous 50 HK cent fee, will help combat plastic waste and encourage consumers to use reusable bags.

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 ...