Repurpose Old Cans Into The Ultimate Plastic Grocery Bag Dispensers With This Simple DIY

If you're sick of the unused plastic grocery bags scattered throughout your kitchen, upcycle old cans for a DIY dispenser ...
PBS

Plastic Bags Are a Problem. Are Plastic Bag Bans a Solution?

Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this waste, several American ...
CEOWORLD magazine

The Business Case for Buying Poly Bags Wholesale: How Smart Packaging Procurement Drives Margins

Packaging is easy to dismiss as a routine expense. But when a business is sending out hundreds or thousands of orders, what ...
Los Angeles Times

Does California need another plastic bag ban? It seems so

Nine years ago California banned grocery stores from giving out flimsy single-use plastic grocery bags, the first state to do so. And the law has been facing obstacles ever since. Days after it passed ...
Forbes

Researchers Say Environmentally Conscious Shoppers Don’t Bring Reusable Bags To The Store

A recent Freshwater Science webinar by Ohio Sea Grant was titled “Why Environmentally Conscious Shoppers Don’t Bring Reusable Bags.” Which makes you want to watch if you’ve heard that it’s better to ...
Science Daily

Plastic bag bans may unintentionally drive other bag sales

When cities or counties institute plastic bag bans or fees, the idea is to reduce the amount of plastic headed to the landfill. But a new analysis finds these policies, while created with good ...
Wall Street Journal

A Plastic Bag Ban to Fix California’s Bag Ban?

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson and Dan Henninger. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters California is known for its ban-first-ask-questions-later ...