California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning ...

Learn more about the art of shopping at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Watch Artist Aymar Ccopacatty, National Museum of the American Indian Artist Leadership Program participant, show ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Aldi shoppers will no longer be able to purchase plastic shopping bags at more than 2,300 stores across the United States. The German-based supermarket chain announced last ...

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

The reason the bags haven’t been commonly recycled previously is because the soft-plastic shopping bags blow around recycling centers and often get caught in machinery, which causes problems for ...

California will no longer offer the option to ask for a plastic bag when checking out at grocery stores. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning the distribution of these bags across the state ...

Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry sea turtles, it's nearly impossible to distinguish between jellyfish and floating plastic ...