California was the first state to enact a single-use plastic bag ban, all the way back in 2014. The law faced considerable headwinds, including a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort from plastic ...

England banned single-use plastic straws, stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton buds in 2020. Sponsor Message This new ban applies specifically to plastic packaging of food and drinks from ...

New single-use plastic ban takes effect in England — here’s why its impact may be limited "People in the UK will no longer be able to buy single-use plastic plates, bowls and trays . . ." ...

While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...

A 2020 study by University of Michigan Professor Shelie Miller displayed how alternatives to single-use plastic items are dependent on high re-use rates. Those rates are often not achieved.

California is known for its ban-first-ask-questions-later approach to problems, and in 2014 it was the first state to pass a comprehensive ban on single-use plastic bags. Whoops, plastic in the ...

Per the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the ban on single-use plastic bags enacted in Washington D.C. in 2010 resulted in a 75% decrease in the number of bags found in trash traps in the Anacostia River.

Upper Merion’s ban on bags, straws, and foam plastic goes into effect January 1, 2024. The ban on plastic utensils will take effect July 1, 2024. EAC said it will help businesses research alternatives ...

The nonprofit is advocating for a full ban on single-use plastic bags given at point-of-sale and polystyrene foam to-go boxes, with an additional 10-cent fee on the use of replacement paper bags.