When I was a boy of seven, my late art-dealer father Ray Hughes took me to Papua New Guinea to buy shields in the ­highlands.

Shoppers in Montgomery County may no longer have the option to use plastic bags in the future. New legislation introduced ...

Paige and Adam Jacobson put polymers in plastic bags to the test - while quizzing Baihly Warfield and Kenny Johnson on ...

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Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

Ten years ago, California became the first U.S. state to ban plastic bags. But over the next few years, the state’s landfills actually saw an increase in plastic waste. That’s because a ...

As with California’s original law, each of the five states whose bag bans still allow thicker plastic bags — Connecticut, ...

Old water bottles, trash bags, straws, and countless other variations of plastic scrap litter the world’s beaches, eventually ...

The new law, first announced in February, prohibits the importation, production, sale and use of plastic bags, which usually end up dumped as litter or buried in landfills. Environmental ...

Homeowners are permitted to use certain plastic bags inside their compost bins, according to the city Sanitation Department. “To ensure that our curbside composting program is easy for residents ...

Nyla Jano has now created many different bags using the materials -- from backpacks to messenger bags to yoga mat bags and ...

Governor Gavin Newsom just signed SB 1053, from Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas), into law, which will eliminate plastic bags at California grocery store checkout lanes. Those heavy-duty, ...