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

It will cost 5 cents per plastic bag and 10 cents for each paper bag in store and through curbside and delivery orders.

Commissaries will soon start charging shoppers for paper and plastic single-use bags. Starting April 6, customers will pay 5 ...

Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this waste, several American ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Garbage bags aren't the most eco friendly option, as they are often made of a heavy duty plastic. For environmentally ...

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

1 million plastic bags are in used around the world every minute. “If the world does not stop production altogether, in 30 years' time the weight of plastic bags thrown into the seas and oceans will ...

Polyethylene plastics -- single-use bags and general-purpose bottles -- are indestructable forever plastics. That also makes them hard to recycle. Chemists have found a way to break down the polymer - ...