The single-use plastic bag could be an endangered shopping species. The thin plastic bag with handles -- known in the industry as the T-shirt bag -- is under pressure from municipal bag bans and a ...

They're caught up in trees, squirreled away in kitchen pantries and floating along with the ocean's current. They're plastic bags — among the 84 billion that Americans use each year — and heightened ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...

The common "paper or plastic" question facing shoppers as they check out could soon become a thing of the past. The choice of bagging with paper or plastic at retail checkout counters could soon be ...

As expected, the leftist, environmentally misled LNP | LancasterOnline Editorial Board condemned single-use plastic bags as environmental pollution (“Bagging plastic,” Aug. 16 editorial).

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Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...