Students at Liberty County schools will be required to wear clear backpacks beginning in the 2026-2027 school year. The new ...

How many plastic grocery bags do you use in a year?The average American uses about 365 plastic bags annually,according to ...

A decade after a proposal to introduce coloured garbage bags to help households separate waste was approved, Bahrain is still ...

When free bags became available again, plastic bag sales initially declined sharply and returned to pre-policy levels after 13 months. The Austin City Council banned single-use carryout bags in 2013, ...

Scientists are finding new ways to replace expensive, scarce platinum catalysts with something far more abundant: tungsten carbide. By carefully controlling how tungsten carbide’s atoms are arranged ...

Japan's Environment Minister Hirotaka Ishihara called Friday the public not to stock up on household trash bags more than necessary amid a naphtha shortage caused by the Middle East situation. "We ...

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has made many changes over the past year or so, including keeping your shoes on at checkpoints, banning cordless hair tools, and charging a fee if you ...

What Californian hasn’t walked along one of our superb beaches only to stumble upon water bottles, cigarette butts, clamshell burger boxes and all manner of nasty plastic trash? We sigh, and plod on.

City-designated trash bags in Japan are running low as the conflict in the Middle East puts a strain on supplies of naphtha, a key ingredient in plastic. In many parts of Japan, municipalities require ...

The pending Minnesota Foster Youth Bill of Rights details a list of legal protections for young people in government care that includes the right to “appropriate travel bags.” This story was ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — Californians will no longer find plastic bags at grocery stores and pharmacies as of Jan. 1, under a new state law aimed at tightening restrictions on single-use plastics. Under ...

A new California law will ban companies from using the symbol if their products aren’t commonly recycled. Here’s how you can play your part in reducing plastic waste.