Researchers aimed to incorporate all aspects of an item’s lifecycle. Researchers make surprising discovery about bans on ...

Used plastic utensils, full plastic water bottles, used tissues — these sorts of items are known as “contaminants in the recycling stream.” The worst offenders: plastic bags.

WEST VINCENT — The board of supervisors will hold a public hearing at the July 17 meeting on a proposed ordinance banning businesses from providing plastic bags, straws, plastic utensils or ...

The banning of single-use plastic items is not new. The city of Malibu set the plastic-ban standard in 2008 when it phased out plastic shopping bags, then a decade later cracked down on single-use ...

Nothing like getting 20 plastic forks in a bag with 4 platters from the local Chinese restaurant.” Joe Maggelet thinks it will cause people to buy more plasticware.

For a few years, single-use plastics like straws and water bottles were a hot-button issue, mainly because they’re so ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Since the Oregon Legislature voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags and limit plastic straws in 2019, most Oregonians have grown used to bringing their own bags to the ...

Bags and trash litter the grass border on West Mulberry Street in Baltimore where a ban on single-use plastic bags at supermarkets, restaurants and all other retail stores went into effect in 2021.

“In 2018, campus dining eliminated self-service plastic straws, replaced plastic utensils with plant-based utensils, and eliminated plastic takeaway bags,” said Michael Hotchkiss, a spokesman ...

Single-use plastic bags are ruining our oceans. They're not just bad for the environment, they're pretty boring to look at. Here are 7 options that are much more sustainable, and look cooler too.

In 2023, a statewide plastic bag ban would go into effect. And by 2025, no individual or business in Hawaii could sell or “otherwise provide” single-use plastic beverage containers in Hawaii.

If it becomes law, it would ban all plastic bags and automatically offering plastic utensils and condiments as of July 2026 and ban plastic packaging on single-use hotel toiletries as of July 2027 ...