An Afrikaner prankster's hidden camera video calling out "stingy" customers at Spar nearly backfired when his targets almost ...

Pick n Pay A shopping bag from another major supermarket in South Africa, Pick n Pay sees you paying R1 for their 24-litre blue plastic bag.

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches.

Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them.

Plastic bags littering the shoreline is a common sight on beaches around the world. CREDIT: Prasit Photo via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries ...

The regulations on bags that were implemented in the so-called treated areas were all one of three types: outright bans on plastic bags; partial bans permitting thicker, reusable bags that do not ...

The earliest plastic bag policies in the U.S. were implemented around 2007, researchers say, but an uptick in the mid-2010s more directly led to the policies analyzed in the study.

More than 600 bag policies, along with records from more than 45,000 shoreline cleanups between 2017 and 2023, were reviewed by researchers to see whether implementing bans or fees on plastic bags ...

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 ...