Chicopee, a city of around 55,000 residents, will have its plastic bag ban go into effect on June 1, 2025. After that, any business that gives a customer a single-use plastic bag will be subject to ...

The popular Oklahoma grocery store chain said the changes are due to rising costs, and an effort to save customers money.

This includes clear backpacks, clear fanny packs and clear cinch bags that fit within the permissible dimensions.Official NFL team logo clear plastic tote bags will be available through club ...

In various cities and states, plastic bag bans have taken hold as a way to reduce pollution and prevent excess waste from harming the environment. But what differences have the laws made in ...

Shoppers in Montgomery County may no longer have the option to use plastic bags in the future. New legislation introduced ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

An curved arrow pointing right. A California startup makes compostable replacements for thin-film plastic out of seaweed. The company sources raw materials from seaweed farms, which can provide ...

and the PE is made domestically from natural gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 report (PDF) prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an industry group, the ...

Dr. Tarun Anumol, from Agilent Technologies, said plastic bags are commonly made from the polymer polyethylene, which depending on the conditions can take up to 1,000 years to fully break down in ...

Lego will start replacing plastic packaging with paper bags from 2021 as the toy brick maker aims to become more sustainable. Lego said it had been prompted by letters from children asking it to ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...