Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S.

New research indicates there’s at least one strategy that works to curb an especially problematic and unnecessary form of ...

Plastic bag bans and fees reduce shoreline litter, but research has found they aren't enough to solve global plastic ...

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

Researchers say plastic bags are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along coastlines. The post ...

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.

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

Taken together, the findings mean that bag bans and fees aren’t a plastic panacea but do matter. “These plastic bag policies ...

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

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

Plastic bag bans and fees are actually working to help decrease litter along shorelines, researchers reveal. Local laws enforcing bans or fees for plastic shopping bags are associated with a 25 to 47 ...