As convenient as they may be, plastic shopping bags are very destructive to the environment and Georgia is looking to solve the problem.

Swachh employees allege PMC did not provide plastic buckets to collect garbage and they are forced to collect waste in bags made of cloth or plastic since past two years PUNE Swachh employees have ...

Bringing all those extra undies and outfit changes *and* not having to pay for a checked bag — it really is possible. View Entire Post › ...

What exactly is no longer permitted? Items like Styrofoam, plastic utensils and single-use grocery bags will be no more in Coronado. Other products, such as plastic balloons, are also banned.

The Essex County Environmental Center is challenging local artists to transform single-use plastic waste into creative works of art for their upcoming g’ARTbage contest. The event aims to raise ...

and slightly smaller than the number of plastic grocery bags. Plastic straw bans could, in theory, chip away at the amount of plastic that winds up on beaches. Banning individual single-use items ...

“I got to the checkout counter and realized I had to pay N300 for a smaller grocery ... shopping bags. Chains like Spar, Justrite, Shoprite, Bokku Mart, and Ebeano Supermarket argue that the new bags ...

Items that can be dropped off in the NexTrex bins include plastic grocery bags, bread bags, bubble wrap, produce bags and dry cleaning bags. These thin plastics are not able to be recycled through ...

Maryland’s Montgomery County joins Prince George’s, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties in adopting a bill that imposes a county-wide ban on nearly all plastic bags at retailers. The “Bring ...

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve ... “For example, we purchase quinoa in 25lb bags. We get it directly from the farm ...

Montgomery County, Maryland, is considering a change to its grocery bag policy that would ban the use of plastic bags at most stores and double the fee on paper bags to 10 cents. The Washington Post ...

More often than most people, in fact. Yet every single time I go to the grocery store, I always forget my reusable grocery bags. I am not sure if it's a bad memory or if I am still used to having bags ...