The move to eliminate plastic bags from the check-out areas follows an earlier decision to eliminate Styrofoam containers and ...

Colorado's single-use bag fee is here to stay. State legislators voted down an effort to repeal a recent law that requires ...

A year after Frederick’s ban on businesses distributing plastic bags to customers, the measure seems to have achieved its ...

Can you actually reuse plastic bags? Experts share how to safely reuse plastic bags and when to recycle instead.

A temporary ban on plastic bags used to carry groceries and other items purchased at stores throughout Carlsbad is set to go ...

Shoppers in Colorado will now have to continue to use their reusable bags or pay the ten-cent fee for paper. Representative Ryan Gonzalez helped sponsor a bill to get rid of a fee. A price he says is ...

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.

Legislation that supports curbside recyclability, along with single-use plastic bag bans, focuses almost exclusively on a material’s end-of-life. This perpetuates a simplistic view of ecological ...

Illinois lawmakers kicked off their spring legislative session roughly three weeks ago, but lawmakers in the House have already filed more than 1,800 bills that could be acted on before the General ...