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Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...
It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...
At FairPrice, small-size plastic bag bundles sell for S$2.60 per bundle of 60, costing about 4.3 cents per bag. That is somewhat cheaper than the five cents a bag to be charged at the checkout.
Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal ...
A study released by ABC News has led to some skepticism around plastic bag recycling programs at retail locations. According to the report, ABC News collaborated with nine ABC-owned TV stations to ...
Yet of the 46 trackers placed in bundles of plastic bags that ABC News dropped off at stores across the country, the vast majority – after months – had not ended up at locations associated ...
The I-Team, ABC News, and ABC stations across the country assembled 46 bundles of recyclable plastic bags. Each contained a tracking device.
Since December 2022, she hasn’t traced a single bundle of film labeled for store drop-off to U.S. facilities that can turn the material into new bags. Twelve bundles have been sent to a landfill ...
After 20 years of operation, a national online recycling directory for plastic bags and plastic films has been taken offline, six months after an ABC News investigation.. The Film Drop-Off ...