People wound up buying more plastic.” Che added store customer had been repurposing the free grocery bags al as liners for household trash bins.” The bag rules, however, most likely changed consumer ...

In fact, the number of plastic bags being disposed of in Hong Kong has risen every year since the full implementation of the Plastic Shopping Bag Charging Scheme in 2015, according to the ...

As part of this initiative, a tax fee will be imposed on shopkeepers who continue to use plastic shopping bags. However, shopkeepers who obtain a plastic license will be allowed to use plastic bags.

Followed categories will be added to My News. For nearly two months plastic shopping bags have been banned in SA. Bring them back! Perhaps there’ll be a black market in good old, noble ...

The world’s nations will wrap up negotiating a treaty this weekend to address the global crisis of plastic pollution ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

We could choose to not use a plastic bag when visiting a physical store,” Tam said. “Why couldn’t we have such an option when shopping online?” The council also suggested that online ...

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] On a Philippines beach, barefoot children jumped and played on shoals of plastic washed ashore in previous typhoons. Much of the ...

26, 2024, in Navotas, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila) FILE- Nina Gomes recovers a discarded plastic bag from ocean waters, near Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, March 19, 2024. (AP ...

NEW YORK (AP) — For half a century, New York City residents have taken out their trash by flinging plastic bags stuffed with stinking garbage straight onto the sidewalk. When the bags inevitably ...

The cleanliness of cutting boards is a long-debated food safety issue, given that both wood and plastic — the most common cutting board materials — can easily harbor bacteria. New research ...