Bags, sun hats, placemats and footstools. These are just some of the products that Re.Bag.Re.Use, a Hout Bay community initiative, makes with recycled plastic bags and old VHS cassette tapes.

The process is simple, says le Roux. They cut up the plastic into strips to roll it into a ball of ‘plarn’. This can then be ...

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It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses.

A study published in Science Journal found that plastic bag policies, such as bans and fees, have been effective in reducing plastic bag litter by 25-47% and potentially protecting wildlife from en… ...

Ubly volunteers crochet plastic bags into sleeping mats for the homeless and earn benches for their church through Meijer’s plastic recycling program.

Policies that have banned or imposed fees on plastic bags are leading to significant declines in plastic litter along U.S. shorelines, a new study has found. These state- and local-level regulation… ...

Regulations cut plastic bag waste on shorelines by close to 50% finds a new study.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups.