Photograph by Andria Lo, National Geographic I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. In the few years since that ban was enacted, I still see plastic thank-you ...

Giant Eagle is going back to disposable plastic bags after a year of reusable fabric bags, according to a statement from a company spokesperson. Since May 2024, the Pittsburgh-based grocery ...

Apparently it might not have been the last straw. Or plastic bag, for that matter. Just months away from New Jersey reaching three years of banning single-use plastic bags in most stores and paper ...

Shifting tides: Heavyweight reusable shopping bags were supposed to solve a problem. TheyǃÙve created a different one When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic ...

That’s partly because 9 out of 10 homes in the U.S. are under-insulated, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), with older residences especially likely to need the extra care.

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

Kraft paper-faced fiberglass roll insulation is standard for most homes’ wall insulation needs. The paper facing acts as both a vapor barrier and ... the wall studs. Use plastic sheeting to ...

Reusable totes are usually how I like to fill in the gaps, but my gaze has shifted to the latest bane of my existence: the shitty plastic bag. Although New York City implemented a plastic bag ban ...

Californians have long supported the idea of eliminating single-use plastic bags from grocery store checkouts. In fact, nearly a decade ago, both the state’s voters and the California ...