Madurai: They look like cloth bags and feel like them, but do you know that the non-woven carry bags that you get from the shops do have plastic content and are among the articles banned ? With the ...

Concerned over the rampant use of environmentally hazardous ‘non-woven’ plastic carry bags across the State, the Himachal Pradesh government has decided to impose a complete ban on its use from ...

The non-woven bags that you have been using, thinking that they are an eco-friendly alternative to plastic bags, contain polypropylene (a form of plastic), a study published on Thursday has revealed.

A spike in the use of non-woven bags made of polypropylene fabric and sold under the tag of ‘cloth bags’ in Ernakulam seems to have hit efforts to shift to eco-friendly carrybags following the ban on ...