"For others, it has come to connote an inexpensive, resilient, easy to attain carryall that encapsulates the movement of ...

When Gail Zimmerman bought 6,000 plastic bags printed with the name of her Bergen County yarn store in 2016, she thought she had enough to last for years. She was right — sort of. Zimmerman, owner of ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Arkansas Poly & Printing and Trex Company are celebrating their year-long partnership. After joining forces just over a year ago, the Van Buren producer of flexible consumer ...

A Canadian grocery store has come up with a unique plan to help its customers reduce their eco-footprint. With single-use plastic bags being a known contributor to environmental problems, the East ...

The fee for a plastic shopping bag is set to rise to 12 cents in January. Unsettled questions remain about imposing ...

If you haven’t heard “paper or plastic?” at the checkout line in a while, you’re not alone. While Massachusetts lawmakers have declined to pass a statewide plastic bag ban despite more than a decade ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

“Eliminating the retail distribution of single-use plastic bags helps prevent litter and plastic debris from entering Narragansett Bay and our local waters,” DEM Director Terry Gray said. PROVIDENCE — ...

Canada's East West Market is hoping for a future free of single-use plastic bags Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016, and is the author of the ...