Causes Credit: KeepCool Bags/Flickr New Jersey's plastic consumption triples after plastic bag ban enacted, study shows Jersey's plastic ban was meant to mitigate its plastic consumption, but one study found the replacement bags may have tripled its plastic consumption.
Solutions Photo by Jasmin Sessler on Unsplash Why your recycling doesn't always get recycled The average American produces almost five pounds of waste every day. Here’s how to save yours from ending up in a landfill.
CausesGreen Map System/Flickr Why do some people in New Jersey suddenly have so many reusable bags? A ban on single-use plastic and paper bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect: Delivery services switched to heavy, reusable sacks — lots of them.
Solutions COVID-19 comeback: Some bans on reusable shopping bags lift Months after concerns about spreading COVID-19 spawned bans on reusable shopping bags, the ubiquitous totes are coming back.
Causes grist.org Plastic recycling is broken. Why does Big Plastic want cities to get $1 billion to fix it? Your takeout container is likely headed to a landfill.
Solutions www.washingtonpost.com Plastic bags are back. Environmentalists hope it's not for good Environmentalists hope people will return to sustainable habits once bag bans return and coronavirus-related restrictions on reusables ease.
