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

In New Jersey, a study funded by plastic bag manufacturers found that while the number of single-use plastic bags sold declined by 60% after a bag ban took effect in 2015, ...

Such tough talk has the plastic bag industry girded for a long battle against taxes and bans — not just in Maryland but around the country, where dozens of measures are under consideration.

California residents can’t recycle plastic bags through their curbside recycling programs, as virtually none of the state’s material recovery facilities will accept them.

The banned bags are back. In 2017, Kenya passed a law banning single-use plastic bags — the kind that grocery stores and other vendors give you to hold your purchases.

The initial resistance to plastic bags came from manufacturers of paper bags, who saw them as a major threat. Environmentalists took up the cause of eliminating single-use bags in the 1990s, ...

In January 2015, after Dallas implemented a five-cent fee on plastic bags, plastic bag manufacturers banded together to sue the city, citing Texas state law that does not allow taxes on any form ...

Business groups are fighting back against plastic bag bans across the country, setting up collisions between manufacturers, environmentalists and lawmakers. A decade after San Francisco became the ...