Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind ...

Hampton Roads residents aren’t against recycling — some just don’t know how to properly dispose of waste. Inspectors rooted through about 32,000 homes’ recycling carts last spring across James City ...

Land at Kigali International Airport with a plastic shopping bag in your carry-on, and it probably won't stay with you for ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

Of the 14 bagged brands, only four had plastic bags made of polyamide, a type of nylon, while the other 10 were made of paper ...

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level regulations ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had ...