RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The City of Reno is asking the public for their plastic bags. Last year, the city took the Nex-Trek recycling challenge to see if they could get 1,000 pounds of bags to turn ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse City School District is likely going to purchase thousands of locked bags to comply with New York State's new cell phone ban, following in the footsteps of other ...

Business Officials issue sweeping ban that will have major impact on consumers' shopping habits: 'Controlling its use will greatly benefit the municipality' Many cities have implemented similar bans.

Statewide plastic bag bans have also been on the rise. As of 2025, 12 states, including California, New York, Colorado and Washington, have enacted some form of ban on single-use plastic bags.

Plastics policy debates have moved way beyond bag bans and fees — these days the topic du jour in state legislatures is broad-based packaging EPR laws — but how to handle retail bags still ...

Regardless of the patchwork of regulations aimed at limiting plastic bag use in the United States, new research indicates that such legislation does, indeed, limit the number of plastic bags found ...

Business Researchers make surprising discovery about bans on plastic shopping bags: 'Become less expensive' Researchers aimed to incorporate all aspects of an item's lifecycle.

A Bland, Mo., woman allegedly swallowed a bag of methamphetamine to avoid additional charges after a traffic stop on Wednesday. On July 9, Gasconade County deputies conducted a traffic stop on a Jeep ...

The oceans may contain much, much more plastic than previously thought A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.