Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

Stop soil erosion with this genius hack! Plastic bags filled with water are a great way to maintain the health and productivity of your land.

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer ...

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That’s why I turned to tree watering bags—but are water bags for trees good or bad? For me, they save time and effort, ...

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

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 ...

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The study was published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - People living in one mobile home park have resorted to using plastic bags to go to the bathroom. That’s because they have been without running water for three days now.