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

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

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

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

A new study from the University of Delaware and Columbia University looked at plastic bag bans and fees in jurisdictions across the United States to gauge their effectiveness. The researchers found ...

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

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

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

The study, published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science, analyzed the relationship between policies on plastic bags and the litter collected in more than 45,000 shoreline cleanups.

Nearly half a century of beach cleanups across America show that plastic bag bans reduce plastic bag litter washing up on our ...