Coop Norway has introduced bag dispensers at its Obs Haugenstua store as part of a pilot project to reduce the use of plastic ...

Spare grocery bags are strangely tricky to store. Instead of stuffing them under the sink, keep plastic bags neat and ...

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper?

Independent Schools Foundation Academy Raising prices on plastic bags may not be the answer to reducing plastic waste in Hong Kong. Undoubtedly, the newly adopted HK$1 levy will deter some people ...

Bangladesh is to ban plastic bags at all markets. To get to grips with this idea we need the concept of Chesterton's Fence.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

'Easy, convenient, cheap': how single-use plastic rules the world Each year the world produces around 400 million tonnes of plastic waste, much of it discarded after ...

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

In California, shoppers will have only one bag option at the checkout line starting in 2026. A decade ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban single-use plastic bags, the flimsy sacks ...

How much of our waste gets recycled really and are ‘sustainable’ plastic alternatives actually any better for the planet?