State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered ...

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

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines are thin plastic shopping bags, which have ...

New research shows shoreline litter in U.S. has been slashed by almost half since plastic bag bans have gone into effect.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...

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

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items ...

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.

But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and riverbanks. Plastic bag fees ...