In various cities and states, plastic bag bans have taken hold as a way to reduce pollution and prevent excess waste from harming the environment. But what differences have the laws made in ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

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 ...

With late fall only turning tree leaves in recent days after a stretch of unseasonably warm summer-like temperatures, some ...

Who Gives A Crap is known for its innovative approach to toilet paper, but now it's expanded into other household items that ...

The new law, first announced in February, prohibits the importation, production, sale and use of plastic bags, which usually ... that the equivalent of 2,000 garbage trucks of plastic is dumped ...

Oct. 24, 2024 — Approximately 71 to 95 million people in the Lower 48 states -- more than 20% of the country's population -- may rely on groundwater that contains detectable concentrations of ...

I haven’t. It has been estimated that plastic bag waste sent to landfills has increased by more than 40% since the bag ban was passed. It took 10 years for the Legislature to overcome the ...

A pair of litter wombles who spent six hours in a Leicester car park found 61 nitrous oxide cannisters among hundreds of collected rubbish. Mark and Julie Burley spent two morning in the B&M car park ...