City council members are awaiting a response from the court of appeals, after Athens Athens County Court of Common Pleas ...

California became the first state to pass a plastic bag ban in 2014, but it's been blamed for making the problem worse. The ...

By ARTHUR VIDRO On Consumerism While I was in college, plastic bags hit the supermarkets for the first time. Initially they ...

"How will we carry fish and meat in paper or jute bags? We used to get polythene for this, but what's the alternative now?" At some stores, plastic food wrap was still being used to package fish ...

There are changes you can make. Photo of shopper's 'annoying' grocery store behavior sparks debate online: 'Are all the bags ...

The city says we can line the brown bins with plastic bags, but it feels like it is not in the spirit of composting. Is that ...

It also keeps the lightweight plastic bags out of trees or stuck in bushes for months at a time as they slowly disintegrate. The bags are notorious litter offerings, oftentimes ending up in area ...

On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California’s plastic bag waste, despite a 2014 law that was designed to ...

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