Researchers say plastic bags are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along coastlines. The post ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and riverbanks. Plastic bag fees ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have ... type of trash in the study. They’re lightweight, rarely recycled, ...

Policies aimed at reducing single-use plastic bags have led to a significant decrease in bags found on shorelines.