Throwaway plastic bags are so last year. What's in: Reusable sacks of every shape, material, size, color and cost that show off your environmental consciousness. "You see them at the checkouts ...

Three students of the Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (BIT), Sathyamangalam, received a cash purse of ₹ 1 lakh for developing biodegradable non-woven bags from recycled fibre waste at the ...

Millions of everyday household items quietly contribute to pollution, plastic waste, and rising carbon emissions. The good ...

Waves of Change is a CBC series exploring the single-use plastic we're discarding, and why we need to clean up our act. You can be part of the community discussion by joining our Facebook group. In a ...

A Bangladeshi scientist who has invented a low-cost biodegradable carry bag seeks investments to manufacture and popularize the bag to replace polythene in daily use and the packaging industry.

Plastic bags are a wonder of modern technology. They can be made very thin, with minimal raw material, but are still strong enough to carry a heavy load of shopping. No other carry-all container can ...

The European Commission is to publish proposals in the spring designed to reduce the number of plastic bags used in Europe each year. Most of the 15,000 people who took part in a public consultation ...

Plastic bag bans are here. For any states still able to get their hands on single-use shopping bags, the party comes to an end today in Woolworths, and on July 1 in Coles and IGA stores nationwide.