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, ...

In 2021, Californians discarded 5.89 tons of plastic bags per 1,000 people, compared with 4.08 tons of plastic bags per 1,000 people in 2014, according to an analysis by CalPIRG.

The Dallas City Council had imposed a 5-cent fee for single-use bags for five months in 2015 before repealing the fee when the city faced lawsuits from plastic bag manufacturers. When free bags ...

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.