Diego Arreola Fernández, an international student from Mexico who will graduate from the University of Toronto this fall, ...

The good news is that many grocery stores have plastic bag recycling drop-off bins near the front, such as at customer ...

According to the California Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recycling arm, CalRecycle, the 2014 law hasn't made a dent in the state's plastic waste problem-in fact, the issue has only ...

In 2014, 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste was discarded in California. By 2021, that tonnage had skyrocketed to 231,072 — a 47% jump. Even accounting for an increase in population, the report ...

Earlier this year, CALPIRG released a report showing that the volume of plastic bag waste in California had actually increased since 2014, as a result of the loophole in a previous ban. (Raul Roa ...

Microplastics have permeated the region’s food chain, hitting countries like Indonesia and the Philippines the hardest. The programme Insight looks at the health risks and what is being done to boot ...

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, signed a new statewide plastic bag ban Sept. 22.

Gov. Newsom signs legislation to ban plastic bags from California grocery stores 00:45 "Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law ...