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 ...

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 ...

With 174 million participants globally last year, Plastic Free July is the world’s largest plastic waste avoidance campaign. This award-winning behavior change campaign — now in its 15th year — ...

FOX LAKE—Sixth graders at the School for Agricultural and Environmental Studies in Fox Lake are working to make big environmental changes. After reading about how plastic bags are threatening oceans ...

Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.