In you’re a conscientious consumer, you’re probably trying to curb your use of virgin plastic by bringing your own tote bags to the grocery store and using refillable water bottles. Yet plastic lurks ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no secret that pollution is a problem, and a large part of that pollution comes from single-use plastic bags. Plastic bags ...

New York state may be joining the states that require recycled plastics to be used in garbage bags. Sen. Elijah Reichlin-Melnick, D-Nanuet, recently reintroduced legislation first introduced in the ...

When it feels like every price tag in the supermarket is showing a bigger number than you remembered, you might rethink even the most minuscule of purchases. If you want to penny-pinch and reduce ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

Plastic bags are bad. Ban them from supermarkets, and the problem is solved, right? Right? Right? Turns out, as is often the case, there may be a little bit more to that story. Researchers at the ...

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 ...

For one in three U.S. residents, single-use plastic bags are no longer a cheap and easy ubiquity—and beaches, riverbanks and lakeshores are benefitting. That’s according to research published on June ...

Today’s batch of burning questions, my smart-aleck answers and the real deal: Question: If Asheville is thinking about a ban on some plastic bags, because they are harmful to the environment, why do ...