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

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level ...

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

The researchers found that plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bags as a share of total items ...

Policies aimed at reducing single-use plastic bags have led to a significant decrease in bags found on shorelines. It turns out eliminating the “paper or plastic” question through plastic bag ...

outright bans on plastic bags; partial bans permitting thicker, reusable bags that do not travel as easily on the wind; and fees—essentially taxes—on plastic bags, paid as part of the grocery bill at ...

Plastic bag pollution is harmful to both animals and humans. ... “They’re hard to recycle, they’re single-use, and they’re lightweight, and so they blow very easily in the wind.

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

Gov. Tina Kotek has signed a bill into law that bans thicker, reusable plastic bags at grocery store checkouts, restaurants ...

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.