When a group of high school seniors teamed up with Ramapo College and the Paterson Museum to examine the use of bags — both single-use plastic and reusable — in northern New Jersey in 2018, they ...

Ann Arbor, Mich. — A traveling art installation and immersive film experience, The Plastic Bag Store is using a sense of humor to tell a unique interactive story about the amount of plastic waste ...

Before California banned plastic shopping bags statewide in late 2016, a wave of 139 California cities and counties implemented the policy themselves. Taylor and colleagues compared bag use in cities ...

On a recent fall morning in central Harlem, stacks of plastic garbage bags filled the sidewalks in front of the well-kept brownstones. Some of the black bags leaked brownish-gray liquid, others sat ...

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Environmental groups across North Carolina, such as MountainTrue, have pushed for new local ordinances to reduce plastic waste. A provision in the new state budget takes aim at local plastic bag bans ...