Three key arguments have come up time and time again during city council’s ongoing debate on whether the city should mandate the use of clear garbage bags. Privacy ...

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 ...

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 ...

(The Hill) — 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 ...

a party-size bag of Kettle Chips and a lunch-size bag of Fritos. Sealing the Kettle bag took fewer tries than the first bag, possibly because we were rehearsed at this point, but also because this ...

A new study suggests plastic debris like shopping bags bear remarkably similar “echoes” to those of squid—likely due to some combination of their shape, size, degree of weathering ...

In April, a female elephant seal lovingly nicknamed “Necklace” was freed from a piece of plastic that had wrapped around her neck and was slowly strangling her. Despite a recent effort to cut ...

SMU Athletics abides by a Clear Bag Policy. The only bags permitted (see chart below) are those made of clear plastic, vinyl or PVC which do not exceed 12-by-6-by-12 inches, one-gallon clear plastic ...

In October, Friends of the Elephant Seal docents saw a seal with an entanglement around his neck on the beach at Piedras Blancas. He was at the far south end, difficult to observe — but that ...

A year has passed since Japan introduced mandatory charges to customers for each single-use plastic bag taken from retail stores. The ratio of shoppers who decline plastic bags at stores has risen ...

By the time you clear ... bag just 18p. Here's what you need to do. Simply grab your freezer bag and pop the kettle on. While the water is boiling, add some cold water into the plastic bag.