A year after Frederick’s ban on businesses distributing plastic bags to customers, the measure seems to have achieved its ...

It looked at the effects of the plastic bag bans in Austin and Dallas, US cities where the restrictions were eventually reversed. The research revealed that after the ban was lifted, sales of ...

New York has already provided a cautionary tale about the unintended consequences of a broadly worded plastic bag ban like the one now under consideration in Bozeman. New York legislators enacted ...

State legislators want to reduce plastic waste by barring restaurants from automatically giving customers single-use cutlery ...

It is now planning to extend the one-day ban to three days. Retiree K. Jaya said the practice of selling plastic bags at 20sen each to those who did not bring their own bags must be stopped in ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were spotted exiting a grocery store Thursday with plastic bags to carry their goods.