The Elgin City Council has ruled that single-use plastic bags will be banned at large retail stores in Elgin starting in June ...

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only ...

A Monmouth County woman and Clean Water Action are fighting against single-use plastic pollution across New Jersey. Here's ...

Newsom has railed against plastic waste, but videos of the governor’s ‘This is Gavin Newsom’ podcasts usually feature a single-use plastic water bottle by his side. ‘It’s like that whole French ...

The Elgin City Council voted Wednesday to advance a proposed ordinance banning single-use plastic bags at major retailers that, if passed, wouldn't take effect until June 2027.

For one in three U.S. residents, single-use plastic bags are no longer a cheap and easy ubiquity—and beaches, riverbanks and lakeshores are benefitting. That’s according to research published on June ...

Very few address the pressing issue of single-use water bottles. "Education is the most important action we can take," she says. "Drinking water from plastic bottles is fine in an emergency but it is ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has begun eliminating all single-use plastics from its campus beverage services as of July 7. Instead of water and soda in plastic bottles in campus cafes and ...

Dubai has enforced the final stage of its phased single-use plastics ban, expanding regulated products to include plastic ...