FARGO — The FM Plastic Bag Task Force has started its 2020 Plastic Bag Challenge Jan. 6. The Plastic Bag Challenge encourages the use of shopping with a reusable bag and avoiding plastic bags. Fifth ...

This article is part of CNN Underscored’s Earth Week, a weeklong focus on our planet and ways to celebrate and preserve it. We’ll be featuring tips on how to live more sustainably, products to help ...

WYNOT, Neb. (KTIV) — Students at Wynot Public Schools celebrated on Friday after collecting more than 16,000 plastic bags during September’s “plastic bag challenge,” an initiative designed to help ...

The supermarket chain, headquartered in San Antonio, will be giving out 265,000 free reusable bags beginning at 1 p.m. Monday. The bags will be available to customers who visit any H-E-B, Central ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...