Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic bag bans and fees have spread across the United States, and new research show they're doing a good job at cutting down on ...

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 ...

a person holds an orange mesh bag filled with fruits and a white cloth bag with baguettes - Zbynek Pospisil/Getty Plastic consumption is now about as universal as the sky and the moon. Plastic is ...

two reusable grocery bags loaded with produce and bread held beside a person's legs - Zbynek Pospisil/Getty Images Just a few decades ago, folks got by just fine without plastic grocery bags. They are ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco was the first city in the nation to get rid of single use plastic bags in 2007. In 2014, the rest of the state would also ban the so-called urban tumbleweed.

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