Driven by a passion for environmental protection and a desire to give waste a new life, many young people in Hanoi are inspiring their communities to embrace more eco-friendly and responsible ...

Drinks are served in plastic cups with plastic straws at a shop in Hanoi, April 29, 2025. Photo by VnExpress/Bao Bao Hanoi produces more than 1,400 tons of plastic waste daily. City leaders say ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's shorelines, the study found.

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses.

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which ...

Regulations cut plastic bag waste on shorelines by close to 50% finds a new study.

On Thursday, Governor Tina Kotek signed a new law banning all plastic bags at checkouts in restaurants, grocery stores, and retail shops starting January 7 of 2027.

Here we are, nearly four years later, and I’m still offered a plastic bag nearly every time I visit an establishment that serves food. So, what happened?

Grocery stores, convenience stores and drugstores will get to keep 20% of the revenue generated by Richmond’s 5-cent plastic bag tax, which will go into effect on Jan. 1.