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

According to the report, ABC News collaborated with nine ABC-owned TV stations to place 46 trackers on plastic bag bundles that were deposited at Walmart and Target locations for recycling in 10 ...

ABC News tracked dozens of plastic bags placed in retailers' recycling bins as part of an investigation into the effectiveness of America’s recycling streams.

The use of plastic grocery bags has been a significant contributor to plastic pollution. A 2024 report from Condor Ferries said that around 327 million bags from the US alone end up in the ocean ...

In the first eight months after New Jersey's ban took effect in 2022, an estimated 16.5 billion plastic bags were removed from the waste stream, according to the New Jersey Food Council.In ...

Papp and Oremus combined eight years of Ocean Conservancy’s data — constituting more than 45,000 cleanups across the U.S. from between 2016 and 2023 — with information on roughly 180 plastic ...

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.