First, you flatten the bag. Then, fold it lengthwise into thirds in a long strip. Starting at the bottom, fold it up into small squares. Keep folding until you reach the handles, then tuck the handles ...

Instead of throwing away those plastic bags from the grocery store, discover how to turn them into both decorative and useful ...

California stores used to be required to keep records describing the collection, transport and recycling of plastic bags. But the law requiring those records was allowed to sunset in 2020.

Plastic bags are amazing. ... It’s a collection of plastic in the Pacific Ocean that is, depending on whom you ask, the size of Texas, or two Texases, or the entire continental USA.

TAMPA, Fla. — In the coming months, any Tampa yard waste placed in plastic bags will be left on the curb. The city will stop accepting plastic bags of any kind in yard waste collection starting ...

Plastic bags can gunk up recycling systems and cause machinery to malfunction, hurting the entire process. Instead, you need to bring your bags to a specific location — a recycling collection ...

ABC News tracked dozens of plastic bags placed in retailers' recycling bins as part of an investigation into the effectiveness of America’s recycling streams.

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.

Plastic bags replaced by plastic bags. He is the 36-year-old face of the social media campaign that prompted the ban in 2017 and says an imperfect ban is better than none.

Eliminating single-use, plastic yard waste bags will allow Solid Waste Services to decrease the amount of time required to provide service at each home, says the city. Yard waste collection ...

Also in July, SACEE voted unanimously to support a revision to an existing ordinance prohibiting the use of plastic bags for curbside leaf collection. The city considers this change "Phase 1 ...