When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.  That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved ...

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

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

Climate Solutions Plastic bag fees and bans help protect beaches and riverbanks, study finds But even places with bag policies are seeing a greater prevalence of plastic bags on beaches and ...

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Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items collected in shoreline cleanups relative to areas without policies.

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.

Plastic bag regulations have led to significant decrease in shoreline litter, study finds State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them ...

Plastic Bag Bans Can Reduce Shoreline Bag Litter by 47% More than 100 countries have instituted bans or fees on plastic bags.