SAN FRANCISCO -- Target customers are petitioning the retailer to eliminate plastic bags from their stores. The petition on change.org has gathered over 450,000 signatures since it was posted in ...

For now, California is offering guidance, not mandates, on what stores should do with plastic bags already in storage.

According to Target's website, drive-up and pickup orders will now face fees on bags based on local and state mandates. How it works: That means when you place a pickup or drive-up order in a state or ...

For more than a decade, Courtney Williams and her family have lived in the shadow of the Wheelabrator waste-to-energy incinerator, located along the Hudson River in Peekskill, New York. "We go outside ...

Both ABC News and the nonprofit environmental group The Last Beach Cleanup put trackers in plastic film placed in consumer drop-off locations at stores in an effort to see what happens to the material ...

Plastic bags, which are infuriatingly antiquated at this point, are now potentially on the petition-boosted chopping block at Target. At the time of this writing, the petition had landed around ...

Bags are one of multiple packaging categories coming under fire for contributing to plastic waste. Like New Jersey, numerous states are banning single-use plastic bags at retail establishments or ...

It's been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...