If you’ve visited a grocery store in the last year, chances are high that you saw single-use plastic bags swapped for another reusable bag (also made with plastic, but we’ll get to that later). Or ...

Acosta Sheet Metal Manufacturing, Inc., a family-owned sheet metal manufacturer based in San Jose, is excited to join with 99Bridges, a tech company providing sustainability solutions, to create a ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

As COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapeutics are manufactured globally in response to the pandemic, some pharmaceutical companies are seeing high lead times for the large, single-use plastic bags in ...

Single-use plastic bags may soon be banned in the state of Massachusetts. As part of its budget debate, the state Senate approved a provision to ban the bag at all retail stores that are larger than 3 ...

(KTLA) – It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses. In the coming year, that ban will become more strict as the ...

In May, New Jersey became the first state to ban single-use bags made from plastic or paper in large grocery stores. The new ban lumps both types of totes together, but one is actually worse for the ...

In Sweden, a company called Celloplast—that had sold cellulose film—was working out ways to use and sell the stuff. In 1960, the company filed for a U.S. patent for "tubing for packaging purposes," ...

Paper or plastic? Wegmans would prefer neither, encouraging customers to instead switch to reusable bags as a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags looms. The Rochester, N.Y.-based supermarket ...

“Paper or plastic?” Your days are numbered. The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the past. On ...