A team of students creating a biodegradable plastic bag took first place in the finals of the TiE Young Entrepreneur (TYE) ...

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Photograph by Andria Lo, National Geographic I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. In the few years since that ban was enacted, I still see plastic thank-you ...

The kilos were wrapped in yellow plastic, packed into burlap ... Thornton told Leonard to cut loose three duffel bags of cocaine from their parachute and dump them from the plane.

New Jersey's plastic bag ban resulted in tripled plastic bag production due to the switch to thicker polypropylene bags. Retailers are profiting significantly from bag fees, while consumers face ...

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 ...

Apparently it might not have been the last straw. Or plastic bag, for that matter. Just months away from New Jersey reaching three years of banning single-use plastic bags in most stores and paper ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...