Our takeout bags are filled with plastic containers and plastic utensils. A lot of plastic products can be recycled, but the majority of them just end up in landfills and go on to pollute our oceans.

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 ...

Fishermen on the lake speaking with CNN said they're pleased to have the opportunity to make the extra income selling ...

The supermarket chain Morrisons is raising the price of its reusable plastic bags from 10p to 15p as a trial and introducing a 20p paper version. The paper bags will be available in eight stores ...

China is among the first countries to implement control measures for unnecessary single-use plastic products. Provinces such ...

Koyambedu Wholesale Market in Chennai bustles with activity, despite a ban on single-use plastics in Tamil Nadu.

Powered by stolen electricity, black-market polyethylene, and misappropriated government funds, illegal plastic factories in ...

Plastic carrier bags account for much less than 10 percent of the total. Japan is the world’s second-largest consumer of single-use plastic products on a per capita basis. Greater efforts are ...

Single-use plastic bag use in England has fallen by 20% after ... The government have already banned the plastic microbeads in personal care products and have restricted plastic straws and cotton ...

Moreover, plastic bags are just a drop in the ocean when it ... it also suggested banning the free distribution of single-use plastic products, such as umbrella covers, and the sale and ...