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 ...

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 ...

I have tried to make my kitchen more sustainable. I’ve stocked up on reusable Swedish dishcloths and switched to bamboo paper towels and even took up composting for a bit — until I opened my bin to ...

When cities or counties institute plastic bag bans or fees, the idea is to reduce the amount of plastic headed to the landfill. But a new analysis by a University of Georgia researcher finds these ...

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This year, California updated its plastic bag ban by allowing grocery stores to offer only paper bags at checkout. Will that ...

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