Los Angeles County passed a strict ban on single use plastic bags today. The ordinance will apply to unincorporated parts of the county but not the 88 cities within the county, including the city of Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County passed a strict ban on single use plastic bags today. The ordinance will apply to unincorporated parts of the county but not the 88 cities within the county, including the city of Los Angeles.

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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.
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...
In the following nature documentary, one of the world's most delicate creatures, the plastic bag, migrates from the city to its natural habitat...
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...
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...

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.

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

Students at Little Village Academy can't eat anything except the food served in the cafeteria.

A new film made by three architecture students wants to make L.A.'s downtown a car-free zone. It just might be crazy enough to work.

We've looked at the educational achievement and the median income of the entire nation. Is there any correlation?
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...
If you got paid for it, would you remember to recycle? The paradigm-shifting RecycleBank thinks you might.

Yes, reusable bags can collect bacteria. No, that doesn't mean it's back to plastic.
We've featured Chris Jordan's work before, but this is too compelling not to share. A little while ago, he took a trip to the North Pacific gyre...