The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste.

Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by ...

Besides reducing litter and eye pollution, recycled plastic bags reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. A number of ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom over the weekend signed Senate Bill 1053 into law, which will enact the ban beginning Jan. 1, ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

Companies agree to jointly develop PLA shrink-sleeve label films made biodegradable using an encapsulated enzyme.

Plastic bottles and bags can be vaporised into chemical building blocks and turned into new plastics with all the properties of virgin material. There are hurdles still to overcome, but the new ...

polyolefin plastic bags and bottles, into gases -- propylene and isobutylene -- that are the building blocks of polypropylene and other types of plastics. The process uses inexpensive solid ...

The Queensland government's plastic bag ban mandates that bags made of plastic film must include at least 80 per cent recycled content. Multiple government webpages incorrectly suggested this ...