While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...

Proposed by the city’s Sustainability Commission, the goal is to get people into the habit of using reusable bags when shopping so that the use single-use plastic bags is reduced, commission ...

The body of a teenage girl stuffed inside a plastic bag has been fished out from Masuri Ganga canal in Ghaziabad, police said on Monday. The bag stuck in bushes along the embankment was spotted on ...

PLAINWELL, Mich. — A local school district is working to reduce the amount of plastic bags that go into the environment. Plainwell Community Schools is collecting plastic bags from now until the ...

"I was like 'I’m cool with it,'" said Victoria Hall. New York state’s 2020 ban on plastic bags was an effort to address the environmental impacts of plastic waste. Before the ban, an estimated ...

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dr Jackson Adiyiah Nyantakyi, has cautioned the public against consuming beverages and porridge served in plastic bags.

A plastic bag on the top of a hob caught alight, causing a fire at a flat in Ventnor. Fire crews from Ryde and Shanklin attended the scene of a third floor flat at a domestic property on Church Street ...

LANSING, MI - Some Democrats in Lansing are pushing to give local governments the power to ban or tax plastic bags and containers in their communities. Democrats in the Senate and House ...

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to ...

Malaysia is banning single-use plastic bags at parks, nature reserves and retail outlets in a nationwide push to fight pollution, officials announced last week. The ban will take effect at forest ...