A 2020 study by University of Michigan Professor Shelie Miller displayed how alternatives to single-use plastic items are dependent on high re-use rates. Those rates are often not achieved.

California is known for its ban-first-ask-questions-later approach to problems, and in 2014 it was the first state to pass a comprehensive ban on single-use plastic bags. Whoops, plastic in the ...

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 ...

The bill would ban stores from giving out single-use plastic carryout bags, giving them until 2020 to use up existing stocks, and require an 8-cent charge for other bags handed out.

Per the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the ban on single-use plastic bags enacted in Washington D.C. in 2010 resulted in a 75% decrease in the number of bags found in trash traps in the Anacostia River.

The nonprofit is advocating for a full ban on single-use plastic bags given at point-of-sale and polystyrene foam to-go boxes, with an additional 10-cent fee on the use of replacement paper bags.

Hotels, restaurants, and supermarkets are being urged to prepare for a ban on many types of plastic packaging. Single-use shampoo bottles, single-serving ketchup packets and plastic packaging for ...

New Jersey’s single-use plastic ban is a big, bold and essential step to begin cleaning up our mess. It is true, though, that plastics have given us some very useful devices.

Upper Merion’s ban on bags, straws, and foam plastic goes into effect January 1, 2024. The ban on plastic utensils will take effect July 1, 2024. EAC said it will help businesses research alternatives ...

A ban on single-use plastic bags was approved by Pittsburgh City Council 7-0 on Tuesday and will take effect after one year. "It's about health. It's about the quality of life we have in Pittsburgh.

The ban will impact more than 80,000 companies making single-use plastic items and lead to billions of dollars in losses, he estimated. Advertisement India takes its place in a slow but building ...