County Council passed an ordinance 7 to 3 banning plastic bags and polystyrene containers on June 8. Businesses will have to ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

Nine years ago California banned grocery stores from giving out flimsy single-use plastic grocery bags, the first state to do so. And the law has been facing obstacles ever since. Days after it passed ...

You may have heard that recycling plastic grocery bags can jam up machinery, but what might not be as well known is that there are other ways to get rid of the stuff.

Beaufort County Council strengthens its plastic bag ban. New ordinance also will restrict food containers and plastic ...

The plastic bag fee is the best option to address a large portion of Virginia’s plastic litter, Clean Virginia Waterways’ Joseph Barnes writes in a guest column.