Gandhinagar: In a powerful step towards a plastic-free Gujarat, over one lakh cloth bags have been used by citizens through Bag ATM machines across the state within just 200 days—marking a major ...

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

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

One in three U.S. residents are seeing less single-use plastic bags due to new policies, according to research published in Science on Thursday, June 19. Researchers found that bans and fees reduced ...

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… ...

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.

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 ...

Local and state level bans on plastic bags successfully mitigate plastic bag litter along beaches, lakes, and rivers, according to a study published June 19 in the journal Science.

Plastic bag laws in the US vary considerably by state, county and town, which made it a useful place for researchers to test the effectiveness of bag policies. Policies range from bans and partial ...

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