Connecticut has eliminated billions of plastic bags from the economy and ecosystem with a ban on single-use bags. But what do ...

"It has a role to play." First-of-its-kind facility could transform the future of plastic bags: 'We never said that it is absolutely a no-go' first appeared on The Cool Down.

I personally like to look for signs labeled NexTrex, which collects recyclable materials like plastic bags and turns them into decking. Just think, that plastic bag used to store frozen fruit for ...

The bill would place limits on single-use plastics at restaurants and hotels and ban thicker plastic bags at stores and ...

Materials researchers have developed a new technique to successfully determine the recycled contents of plastic products. To encourage more recycling, some countries are taxing single-use plastic ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Thaely, a new footwear company, gets its name from the Hindi word for plastic bags. The company says every pair of Y2K Pro sneakers contains 10 bags and 12 bottles.

Examples include the plastic bag your dry cleaning garments came in, cereal bags, shrink and bubble wrap, the bag your ...

A Melville plastic bag maker plans to lay off 146 of its manufacturing workers on May 1, according to state filings. Poly-Pak Industries Inc., which has manufactured plastic bags at the ...