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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

New research shows shoreline litter in U.S. has been slashed by almost half since plastic bag bans have gone into effect.

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

For one, if you do use a plastic bag, don’t let it fly away and create litter. Then, properly dispose of it — for example, you can take it to a plastic bag recycling station, she said.