As it turns out, California has not banned single-use plastic shopping bags. Los Angeles Times
As it turns out, California has not banned single-use plastic shopping bags. Los Angeles Times
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This is part four of Stiv Wilson's tour to better understand how plastic ends up in the ocean. Read the previous installments here, here, and...

Watch this mock music video and learn everything you need to know about why plastic bags are really, really dumb.
Plastic bags are going out of style pretty fast.Los Angeles has just joined San Francisco, Israel, Melbourne, China, and most of the African...
Nils Völker's grid of inflating and deflating plastic trash bags is mesmerizing. I don't know if this is the most beautiful thing I've ever...
This flyer by the fashion illustrator Julia Durgee offers tongue-in-cheek responses you can employ when a store clerk tries to give you a plastic...
California couldn't pass that plastic bag ban we were expecting, but the city of Brownsville, Texas, is going ahead with a law that will charge...

Military chocolate milk and Jimmy Choos are being served up in today's daily roundup of what we're reading at GOOD Food HQ. Enjoy!
This morning I was tipped off to a new article over at Self called "The Dirty Truth About Reusable Shopping Bags." It cites a study that found "64...
In the following nature documentary, one of the world's most delicate creatures, the plastic bag, migrates from the city to its natural habitat...

You don't use plastic bags at the grocery checkout. So why do you still use them in the produce department?
Made from more than 40,000 plastic bags and 7,500 plastic cups, this monster winds its way through the streets of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
One of these five people will represent California in the United States Senate for the next six years. Choose wisely.

Putting a price on plastic bags in China probably saved the world about 100 billion pieces of trash.

K-12 education is spared—for now. It's another story for the state's public colleges and universities.

Students at Little Village Academy can't eat anything except the food served in the cafeteria.
Today the California Supreme Court upheld Proposition 8, the state's gay marriage ban. The ban was approved by 52.24 percent of voters last...

This might be the beginning of the end for Styrofoam, that scourge of storm drains and beaches all over America.

Californians are kissing goodbye to the standard 100-watt incandescent light bulb, a tired technology that's barely improved since Edison's time.
A firm in Brazil is taking plastic bottles out of landfills and repurposing them as high quality rope. According to the Arteplas Web site, the...
I don't mean to diminish the absurdity that is the failure to reject Proposition 8 in California, and the general national impulse to prevent gay...