Rear windshield wipers are a very useful item, but we often see them with plastic bags, or sometimes tape stuck over them. ... That's where a plastic bag or wiper wrap comes in handy.

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

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

Lawmakers have responded. Since 2010, more than 100 countries have implemented partial or total bans or fees on plastic shopping bags at either the national or subnational level. In the U.S., 611 ...

When NASA astronauts on Apollo 13 failed in their attempt to land on the moon, NASA engineers were successful in bringing them home safely thanks to an emergency repair involving plastic bags, a ...

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level ...

Anthropologie has already recycled more than 60,000 pounds of poly bags, which have been transformed into pellets that will be used to create other plastic items, including trash bags.

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