(The Hill) — Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores ...

Results are in for the first year of Philadelphia’s plastic bag ban. A study estimates the policy eliminated over 200 million plastic bags in the city — enough to fill City Hall every eight months.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic bags littering the shoreline is a common sight on beaches around the world. The researchers combined information on ...

I am responding to Dave Peters’ letter, “City Council needs policing,” (Herald, June 30). Peters is likely citing the study by Jonathan Klick and Joshua Wright, “Grocery Bag Bans and Foodborne Illness ...

Plastic consumption in New Jersey spiked by nearly three times following the state’s implementation of a strict ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, a study found. "Following New Jersey’s ban of ...

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic slowed the accelerating movement to ban plastic bags due to their environmental impact, the state Legislature applied the brakes in the cause of special-interest ...