Plastic bags are not biodegradable and pose a huge problem for the environment, the marine ecosystem in particular. These ...

Land hermit crabs have been using bottle tops, parts of old light bulbs, and broken glass bottles as shelters instead of shells. Polish researchers studied 386 images of hermit crabs occupying these ...

Plastic bag bans and fees have spread across the United States, and new research show they're doing a good job at cutting down on litter, although some rules work better than others. In places where ...

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 ...

The new California law bans all plastic carryout bags at grocery, pharmacy and convenience store checkouts, including thicker ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

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 graduate of ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...