The Las Cruces City Council has approved a revised ordinance for its plastic bag fee program. Since its 2022 implementation, the 10-cent paper bag fee has generated approximately $700,000. The revised ...

After a yearslong commitment to phase out single use plastic bags from its stores by 2025, here's where Kroger stands.

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by host Paloma Beltran with Judith Enck, former EPA Regional Administrator and president of ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...

Nearly two years after New Jersey enacted one of the toughest plastic bag bans in the nation, is it working? A study making its way around the state and the nation — paid for by a group that’s been ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

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

RICHMOND, Va. — Richmond shoppers will start paying a 5-cent tax on plastic bags beginning in 2026, following City Council's approval of the environmental initiative in June. The fee will appear on ...

Over the past decade, many cities and states across the country have passed plastic bag bans and taxes in an effort to curb plastic pollution. While it still may be too early to gather definitive data ...

Heading into the grocery store, without remembering to bring your reusable bags, you may be forced to pay the 5 cent per bag tax for that forgetfulness. As you rack up your bag use tally, you may be ...

SIXTEEN years after launching the country's first "no plastic bag" campaign, Penang's environmental initiative has generated ...

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