Picking up your dog’s poop is not just a good idea, in many places, it’s the law. Owners can be fined for not scooping up their pet’s “gifts” and disposing of them properly. While it may seem like ...

A bag is a bag is a bag, right? Wrong. That's the way Jeri Barrett sees things. The owner of Herbal Solutions on Silver Bluff Road has been sending her customers home with their purchases in BioBags, ...

Next week, I'll report from China about that country's climate change challenges. Here in the U.S., a dozen states are considering bills to limit consumers' use of plastic shopping bags. Last year, ...

When you pick up your dog’s poop, you do everyone a favor, but if you want to do the environment a favor as well you’ll need to use the right poop bag. A regular old plastic bag can pollute oceans, ...

SKAGIT COUNTY, Wash. — Biodegradable dog poop bags being left on the side of trials in western Washington are piling up, and officials are asking people to be more mindful of how they dispose of them.

Japan has developed a new kind of shopping bag that looks ordinary but behaves very differently from plastic. These bags are ...

A video posted by TikToker Waste-Ed (@getwasteed) with almost 700 comments showed that most plastic bags marketed as being biodegradable are really just a sack of lies. In the video, a filthy, ...

On my desk is a package of supposedly biodegradable plastic bags. A helpful person gave it to me with the hope I would promote degradable plastic bags as a solution for both types of residential food ...

FOSHAN, GUANGDONG, CHINA, January 20, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The global coffee industry is undergoing a significant ...

Oregon’s ban on single-use plastic bags, which goes into effect Jan. 1, does not include The Oregonian’s newspaper bags, which are biodegradable. The new law specifically exempts newspaper bags. But ...