Bogg is contemplating a $5 increase for its most popular original-size tote bag, which would raise the prize from $90 to $95, but Vacarella says that’s as far as the company could go. One hundred ...

Journalist Mollie Goodfellow ordered a dress from the online marketplace, which she claims arrived wrapped up in a plastic bag from Card Factory. On X, formerly known as Twitter, Mollie wrote ...

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 ...

The mandatory bag charge will only apply to purchases made at their physical stores and not for online orders. As for non-carrier disposable bags such as flat top plastic bags for bagging fresh ...

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 ...