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 ...

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

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

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

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

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items ...

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

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

Wet wipes, bags, and other plastic trash strewn across a beach. Getty Images. A small number of analyses looking at this had come from nonprofits, including the Ocean Conservancy, ...