Plastic bags are a relatively recent invention which replaced paper bags when they debuted. One of the reasons grocers made ...

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 ...

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. The ban ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

A Los Angeles Times editorial is asking for a "do over" in the plastic bag ban that actually led to more plastic waste, according to a recent report. After California became the first state in 2016 to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic bags littering the shoreline is a common sight on beaches around the world. The researchers combined information on ...

There is more than one functional alternative to traditional plastic bags.