WASHINGTON -- D.C.'s plastic bag fee: good for the Anacostia River, bad for people wanting to avoid gastrointestinal disease? Bloomberg recently pu...
The L.A. ban effectively puts an infinite price on plastic bags. Disposable plastic bags have real costs. Ask any seagull. But infinity seems like a high price to pay.
The proper way to mitigate this environmental intrusion and reduce the use of plastic in society is an absolute ban on plastic bags, with a pass-through fee for paper bags.
WASHINGTON -- A plan to institute a 5-cent fee on plastic and paper bags in one Maryland county is currently stuck in Annapolis waiting further action...
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously passed an expansion of the city's historic restrictions on plastic shopping bags. Whi...
WASHINGTON -- Residents in Maryland's most populated county are getting used to a new 5-cent bag fee meant to curb pollution, encourage the use of reu...
WASHINGTON -- Across the country, cities and counties are instituting fees on plastic bags, or even banning them outright, in an effort to prevent pol...
Choosing plastic at the check-out line could potentially cost Evanston residents an extra five cents if a bag tax ordinance passes. ...
The District's 5-cent bag tax generated about $150,000 during January to help clean up the Anacostia River, even though residents have dramatically sc...
Plastic bag pollution is growing, and its impact on our rivers, bays and oceans is well documented. The answer to "paper or plastic?" is "neither -- here's my reusable bag!"
