Couch cushions, rugs and carpets are made of polyester fibers; furniture and flooring is coated in plastic laminates. The ...

Shoppers in the state will face a major change at grocery, pharmacy, liquor, and convenience store checkouts, as all plastic ...

Businesses with ambitions to shrink their plastic waste travel a rocky road. Their battle en route to their sustainability ...

When Washington commissioned a study on its plastic bag ban and it came back with inconvenient results, officials decided to disregard their own research.

The amount of plastic from shopping bags has gone up in Washington despite a ban on single-use plastic bags, according to a ...

They're caught up in trees, squirreled away in kitchen pantries and floating along with the ocean's current. They're plastic bags — among the 84 billion that Americans use each year — and heightened ...

The expanded plastic bag ban ignores evidence showing higher waste volumes and unintended environmental consequences ...

There are always a few cloth bags in the trunk of my motorbike, and food containers in my backpack. When a vendor hands me a ...

The cost of a reusable plastic bag will increase by 4 cents in the new year. A recent study questions the effectiveness of ...

Shoppers likely would see a 10-cent fee per plastic and paper disposable bags at the checkouts of major supermarkets and Walmart by early 2014, according to policy direction given to city staff by the ...