Starting in the 2025–2026 school year, students at both Central High School and Central Freshman Academy will be required to ...

In a unanimous 7-0 vote Tuesday, the Peoria Public Schools Board of Education approved a plan that would require all students to have clear backpacks for grades 5-12 beginning in the 2025-26 school ...

Peoria Public Schools is considering a clear bag policy for middle and high school students to improve safety and reduce contraband items, with final approval of the policy expected at the Board ...

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

A little girl walking to school carrying her books in a plastic bag - in 2025. I ran to her and gave her my old work backpack and a few coins I had." He also shared an encouraging message for the ...

Plastic bags have a certain nostalgia in some Asian-American communities, both for their designs and as symbols of the thriftiness of reuse. As the bags are now being phased out due to ...

A BAN ON BAGS RIGHT NOW IN HARRISBURG. A STATE SENATOR IS PUSHING TO OUTLAW SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAGS AT RETAIL STORES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH. NEWS EIGHT’S MICHAEL FULLER IS HERE. WITH HOW ...

SINGAPORE - Piles of plastic bags containing books at Yale-NUS College were seen being taken away by a recycling company on May 20, prompting questions and concern from alumni over what they see ...

School paraprofessional Jeri Prigge takes orders on the playground for the custom book bags she makes for students. “This is actually a hotdish container,” Jeri says.

Authors of a new plastic waste report, said after the plastic reduction law, roughly 16.5 billion single-use plastic bags and 110 million single-use paper bags were kept out of the waste stream ...

The new law, which goes into effect Jan. 1, will overhaul a 2012 county law on plastic and paper bag use. County officials said that law was poorly implemented.

WHAT started as a one-person mission to provide free school bags by Persatuan Projek Beg Sekolah (PBS), has grown into a non-governmental organisation distributing school bags across Malaysia ...