The $6 Reason Grocery Stores Started Using Plastic Bags

Plastic bags are a relatively recent invention which replaced paper bags when they debuted. One of the reasons grocers made ...
Scientific American

Here’s How Plastic Bag Bans Are Working

For one in three U.S. residents, single-use plastic bags are no longer a cheap and easy ubiquity—and beaches, riverbanks and lakeshores are benefitting. That’s according to research published on June ...
Los Angeles Times

Plastic bag bans seem to work, at least when it comes to shoreline pollution

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 ...