Efforts to curb plastic waste in the United States are accelerating, with a growing number of cities and municipalities enacting bans on the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. These localized ...

A ban on the sale of single-use plastic bottles at all city-owned properties is set for an upcoming City Council vote. If adopted, Bill 18 would prevent plastic bottles having a capacity of 1 liter or ...

River Oaks Elementary students are joining a growing push to limit single-use plastics in Houston by asking Supt. Miles to ...

The Kerala High Court has issued a series of guidelines to ensure that the ban on certain single-use plastics (SUP ... and persons recycling or processing plastic waste have got the necessary ...

Whole Foods confirmed the change, stating that the initiative, first launched in 2008, had achieved its goal: making reusable bags the norm. The grocery store's 17-year anti-plastic-bag policy was ...

The bill would expand this ban to all single-use reusable plastic bags. “We know that the majority of these bags are ending up in our waste streams. They end up in our landfills. They're ending ...

While the city of Charleston has a single-use plastic ban, Crowley and Wunderley said they worried about enforcement. “Every community around Charleston, except for North Charleston, has a singl ...