Former EPA official Judith Enck explains why plastic pollution is a production problem—and how policy, not recycling, can ...

Here's the thing that nobody talks about when they hand you a trendy tote at the checkout. Those bags everyone's carrying ...

Thurston County is pushing effort to reduce the number of plastic bags used and you have a chance to make yourself heard. The county is holding a "Community Conversations on Plastic Bags" series of ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

A Los Angeles Times editorial is asking for a "do over" in the plastic bag ban that actually led to more plastic waste, according to a recent report. After California became the first state in 2016 to ...

The Golden State has banned all plastic bags from grocery stores because, as Democratic state Sen. Catherine Blakespear said, “We are literally choking our planet with plastic waste.” Yes, literally ...

It’s out with the plastic and in with the paper this year in Montgomery County, Maryland. A new plastic bag ban took effect ...

For more than two decades, Chico entrepreneur Andy Keller has had a simple answer to the familiar grocery-store question: ...