It’s the quintessential question customers are asked at most grocery and retail stores — and starting January 2024, a question Evanston residents may no longer have to answer. Evanston City Council ...

Park Ridge city leaders had another discussion at the City Council Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night about potentially banning plastic grocery bags. The council is not expected to formally ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

Just a few decades ago, folks got by just fine without plastic grocery bags. They are certainly convenient for both stores and shoppers, providing relatively sturdy bags for customers to haul off ...

A new study from The University of Manchester has shed light on an unexpected consequence of plastic bag bans in East Africa, and why well-intentioned environmental laws may actually be making life ...