If you buy clothes online, you might just throw out the packaging they come in. But what if you could turn that plastic into something that's functional and fashionable? That's exactly what this ...

Clockwise from left: Bloomingdale’s bag in 1972. New York shopping bag, 1972. A printed shopping bag in snowstorm,1972. Jackie Onassis arrives home with a shopping bag. Kirk Douglas greets a woman ...

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 ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses. In the coming year, that ban will become more strict as the thicker, ...

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