Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Now, California legislators are working to rectify the growing problem by proposing a new law that plans to ban the thick plastic bags too. The proposed legislation is co-authored by Senator Allen ...

China introduced a plastic bag surcharge in 2008 in a bid to reduce plastic waste. But the problem is reemerging amid the coronavirus pandemic. In 2008, China faced a plastic problem. As the ...

For example, plastic shopping bags now cost money to encourage people ... new and it stops it from becoming litter. To deal with the problem we need to think about how use plastic and how we ...

Waste plastic bags are a major environmental problem in many African countries A ban on plastic carrier bags has come into force in Kenya, which means that anyone found selling, manufacturing or ...

It told BBC News that the figures don't reflect the scale of the problem. Plastic waste rises as 1.5bn 'bags for life' sold, research finds Reality Check: Where does the plastic bag charge go?

Vermont and Washington have laws banning or restricting single-use plastic bags in an effort to curb the problem. For more, ...

Every tide tosses ashore a fresh catch of bags, bottles, Q-tips ... But this unsightly garbage obscures a more insidious problem — much of the ocean’s plastic is less than a quarter of an inch in size ...

In Ghana, plastic waste is an escalating issue, with two types of plastics dominating the problem: PET (polyethylene ...

The plastic pollution problem “Besides banning plastics ... will mean the public must buy government-designated plastic bags, which will come in nine sizes, with each litre of capacity priced ...

Period. Bar none,” Savoca says, referring to straws, water bottles, and plastic bags. Some 700 species of marine animals have been reported—so far—to have eaten or become entangled in plastic.

Humans perhaps unknowingly are spreading the microplastic pollution problem in the seas ... such as eliminating plastic straws and charging fees for plastic bags at stores, plastic fragments ...