A tourist sparked outrage after a video was shared of them appearing to throw a plastic bag into the mouth of a hippo while visiting a wildlife sanctuary. The clip shows a silver car pull up next ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

SAN ANTONIO — San Antonio residents will no longer be allowed to place plastic bags in the city's blue recycle bins after August 1. The San Antonio Solid Waste Department (SWMD) said it will not ...

As more cities and states ban single-use plastic shopping bags, reusable grocery bags are becoming more popular than ever. Read on to find the best reusable tote bags that are better for the ...

The website offers ideas for plastic-free beginners — small changes like using reusable shopping bags. There are also suggestions for those further along the journey, including making your own ...

More than 230,000 tons of plastic waste. That’s the weight of discarded plastic bags Californians threw away in 2021. With numbers like these, it’s clear California’s plastic bag ban isn’t ...

Green Bellevue is trying to make the world a little greener and reduce the plastic that becomes an unwelcome part of our ...

Sir David Attenborough told us during Blue Planet 2 that “we dump eight million tonnes of plastic into the sea every year”. It’s killing and harming marine life. Turtles eat plastic bags mistaking ...

Think about those scenes as you consider a set of new pointless plastic-bag-related laws that seem destined just to make Californians "dance." Remember all the hoopla in 2014 when Gov. Jerry Brown ...

Legislation that would ban retailers from giving any plastic bags to customers in California, including those currently legal as they are deemed recyclable, has passed both chambers of the ...

The Massachusetts Senate passed legislation on Thursday that would ban single-use plastic shopping bags at retail shops across the state. The “Act to Reduce Plastics”, which includes the bag ban and ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Over RM57mil has been collected in plastic bag charges in Selangor and Penang from 2009 to 2024. Of the total, RM38,048,240.26 was collected in Selangor from 2020 to 2023 while ...