Even in locations that haven't yet implemented plastic bag bans, residents are taking charge themselves by voluntarily ...

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

Patna: State cooperative department minister Pramod Kumar on Thursday admitted in the legislative council that the ban on single-use plastic was being.

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.

During important processes like cleaning, fragments of plastic are lost as microplastics. This means the system itself creates plastic waste, and we urgently need to rethink the design and operation ...

A Guelph-based startup for reusable containers is expanding into 49 Farm Boy grocery stores across Ontario. Co-founded in ...

Plastic from Canada that dates from the 1960s recently washed up on the shores of a Scottish island. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to David Warner from Orkney, Scotland who made the discovery.

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

Jacquie Rushlow On Jan. 30, the Federal Court of Appeal finally reaffirmed what so many Canadians, scientists and environmental leaders have understood for years: single- use plastics have no place in ...

This type of wipe is a common source of marine litter and can break down into microplastics over time, harming the environment.

Elgin City Council members have postponed a vote on a proposed plastic shopping bag ban to give business owners opposed to the idea the opportunity to attend a meeting and voice their opinions in ...

Canada’s strict gun laws include a ban on assault-style firearms and a national freeze on the sale, purchase and transfer of handguns. The Canadian government has banned more than 2,500 makes and ...