Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...

Beginning in 2026, California retailers will fully phase out plastic bags in favor of paper and reusable options, marking ...

A Canadian grocery store has come up with a unique plan to help its customers reduce their eco-footprint. With single-use plastic bags being a known contributor to environmental problems, the East ...

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law enacted ...

Three years ago, Newton joined a growing number of Massachusetts communities and banned supermarkets and other large retailers from providing customers with thin-film, single-use plastic bags at ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...

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 ...

Even if you make every effort to use a reusable grocery bag, we will all inevitably shop without it at least once — and take home a plastic shopping bag along with our wares. These things add up ...

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

Canada's East West Market is hoping for a future free of single-use plastic bags Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He has been working at the brand since 2016, and is the author of the ...