The New York Times

It’s Been Five Years Since New York Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. They’re Still Floating Around.

The muse of American Beauty, Katy Perry and bathroom trash cans everywhere just won’t go away. Credit... Supported by By Danielle Kaye Photographs and Video by Brian Karlsson Since New York’s ban on ...
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Dolphin Picks up a Plastic Bag Floating in the Ocean — Then Deliberately Hands It Over to Humans

Sea creatures are far smarter than we might have ever imagined. From the way they hunt their prey to their unique ways of interacting with people and the environment around them, these behaviors ...
KTLA

Plastic bag fees and bans are working–big time, researchers say

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The New York Times

Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds

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. By ...
WTAE-TV

Experts weigh environmental trade-offs of Pittsburgh's single-use plastic bag ban

ON. WTAE.COM. 1237 IS THE TIME ON THIS WEDNESDAY AND PITTSBURGH’S PLASTIC BAG BAN WAS IMPLEMENTED IN OCTOBER OF 2023 TO TACKLE ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS. IT HAS SPARKED BOTH PRAISE AND QUESTIONS ABOUT ...