PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- More and more cities, including Philadelphia, are banning plastic bags because of environmental dangers. Some big box retailers offer drop-off bins for recycling, including ...

They're caught up in trees, squirreled away in kitchen pantries and floating along with the ocean's current. They're plastic bags — among the 84 billion that Americans use each year — and heightened ...

Beaufort County is leading a broader effort to restrict bags and other items made of plastic. Beaufort’s preliminary vote was ...

The single-use plastic bag could be an endangered shopping species. The thin plastic bag with handles -- known in the industry as the T-shirt bag -- is under pressure from municipal bag bans and a ...

Armstrong Williams’ commentary “Are plastic bag bans increasing plastic use?” missed the point of plastic bag bans, which is to remove the bags from circulation in order to decrease litter and ...

The Park Ridge Committee of the Whole Meeting of the City Council passed the first reading of a plastic bag ban for large ...

California's new plastic bag law went into effect on January 1. It forbids any business from giving away or selling plastic ...