plastic bags
9 stadium-approved clear bags for Taylor Swift concerts and mor𒀰e in 2023
August 22, 2024 | 12:02pmThe stadium essential everyone needs in theirᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ closet.♏
Cheese gets gross — here's a doctor's trick to storing it properly
June 25, 2024 | 2:37pmThis is a Gouda tip.
Blue states' bag bans are causing more plastic waste than ever
February 15, 2024 | 6:43pmꦏ Recent studies are showing that bans on single-use plastic bags are increasing the amount of plastic waste that ends up on landfills.
🀅 How many times can you reuse a plastic zip-top bag? Ziploc weighs in
February 12, 2024 | 11:13am꧑ But zip-top bags shouldn't always be reused — some circumstances call for them to be thrown in the trash.
Do Americans still use plastic bags? Here's what the stats tell us
December 14, 2023 | 2:09pmThe average person still uses 140 plastic bags in 💝a year — about the height of an 18-story building, new r🅠esearch suggests.
Don't expect the greens' 1,600% mistake on ocean plastic to get them to change course
August 13, 2023 | 7:41pmPer a new study in the journal Nature Geoscience, just 500,000 metric tons of plastic end up in the w𓆏orld's oceans each year, not the 8 million tons previously bemoaned. ꦓ
Whale dies in Hawaii with fishi🍷ng nets, plastic bags found in stomach
February 2, 2023 | 2:00pmA whale that washed ashore in Hawaii over the weekend likely died in part because it ate large volu🦋mes of fishing traps
Cause of ꦚdeath revealed for millionaire pharma exec who♒ killed 8-year-old son
January 4, 2023 | 5:38pmGigi Jordan, the millionaire pharmaceutical executive&ꦜnbsp;convicted of manslaughter in the death of her 8-y𒉰ear-old son, committed suicide by putting a plastic bag over her head filled with nitrogen gas, the city's...
I spent $3,200 at Best Buy — but refuse to pay 11 cent💖s for a pla💝stic bag
November 28, 2022 | 2:06pmAn angry Best Buy customer couldn't help but share his two cents on TikTok after he refused to dish out $0.11 for a 𓆏plastic bag.
♔ Save money (and space) with this Amazon deal on Spacesaver bags
October 28, 2022 | 2:47pm༒ Save big on money and space!
New Jersey 𒅌residents fight plastic bag ban, steal shopping baskets ﷽
September 20, 2022 | 6:47pm"They get nasty when they're told that they can't take the basket out of the store and some walk out anyway," a ShopRite employee said. ꦕ
The 7 best r🐠eusable grocery bags of 2022 for sustainable shopping
March 2, 2022 | 9:25amUp your sustainability game🐟 by starting to bring your own bags to the grocery store.
One man's trash is another man's art: Brazilian makes masterpieces from plastic
June 1, 2021 | 5:13pmBrazilian artist Eduardo Srur reproduces classic art masterpieces without using a drওop of paint - just recycled shreds of plastic picked up from city streets and rivers.
US and China lead globe in single-use plas♎tic waste genera🐠tion
May 18, 2021 | 5:11pmBut it's often s🧔maller companies — restaurants🅰, grocers or salons, for example — who bear the brunt of reform.
Don't put gas in plastic bags in your car, and other warnings feds are being forced to make
May 12, 2021 | 12:16pmFederal officials on Wednesday warned people panic🔯k🍸ed by the Colonial Pipeline shutdown to not store gasoline in plastic bags — or to pour it near an open flame.
The wrong time to enforce the new plastic-bag law ♔
May 10, 2021 | 8:10pmSometimes, officials are too eager to move after a media exposé. Case in point, the reaction of the state Department of Environmental Conservation 🥀to reporting by The City that no...
NY's plastic-bag ban one more thing pushing COVID-slammed bodegas over cliff
December 21, 2020 | 7:43pmBodegas across the five boroughs have been a lifeline for New Yorkers throughout the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns. B𝓰ut the economic and health effects of the crisis have taken a...
1 to 2 million tons of US plastic trash go astray, study finds ﷽
October 31, 2020 | 12:15amMore than a m🅰illion tons a year of America’s plastic trash isn’t ending up where it should. The equivalent of as many as 1,300 plastic grocery ba𒉰gs per person is...
Many NYC bod﷽egas are still handing out plastic bags despite ban
October 27, 2020 | 4:11pmMany New York City bodegas continue to dole out plastic bags with purchases -- risking hefty fines -- because paper bags are too 𓄧costly and hard to find, a new...
Long-delayed New York plastic-bag ban to kick o⛄ff on Mond𓃲ay
October 18, 2020 | 5:15pmNew York's long-stalled plastic bag ban is finally 🅠due to kick in on Monday, state officials said. Approved in March 2019, the ban was supposed to go intꦿo effect March...