It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses.

A hilarious video featuring a dog with a toilet paper roll in her mouth has caught the internet’s attention. The video shows Comet, a Golden Retriever, moving around with the roll in her mouth ...

Animal control officers are investigating after a dog was found dead in a bag in Shelton on Tuesday. Authorities said a male French bulldog was found in a bag on the stairs leading up to the ...

In a nutshell Plastic bag laws significantly reduce litter: Areas with bans or fees saw a 25 to 47 percent drop in plastic bag litter on shorelines compared to places without such policies. Fees ...

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 regulation… ...

Regulations cut plastic bag waste on shorelines by close to 50% finds a new study.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which ...

Fees and restrictions on single-use grocery bags mean less trash enters the ecosystem.

Climate Solutions Plastic bag fees and bans help protect beaches and riverbanks, study finds But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and ...

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

For one in three U.S. residents, single-use plastic bags are no longer a cheap and easy ubiquity—and beaches, riverbanks and lakeshores are benefitting. That’s according to research published ...

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items collected in shoreline cleanups relative to areas without policies.