Every year on July 3, people around the world mark International Plastic Bag Free Day, a reminder that a basic item utilised ...

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Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

A study published in Science Journal found that plastic bag policies, such as bans and fees, have been effective in reducing ...

The Moken, a nomadic seafaring people in Thailand, have for generations lived most of their days at sea, moving from one ...

Policies aimed at reducing single-use plastic bags have led to a significant decrease in bags found on shorelines.

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

Plastic bag regulations – bans and consumer fees – have led to meaningful reductions in plastic litter on U.S. shorelines, according to a new study. Plastic pollution has become a pervasive ...

Policies that ban or impose fees on plastic bags are associated with a 25% to 47% decrease in plastic bag litter in shoreline cleanups, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Science.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which ...

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The study adds weight to less formal analyses of plastic bag bans conducted by advocacy organizations and could inform negotiations later this summer over the United Nations’ global plastics ...