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Plastic Bags

Plastic bags don't go in the recycling. What should you do instead?

  • May 25

Paper bag fee passes Philly City Council | Here's what happens next

  • Oct 31, 2025

Philadelphia City Council considering 10-cent fee on paper bags

  • Oct 23, 2025
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New Year brings new laws impacting everything from tolls to bags

  • Jan 2, 2025

UC Berkeley chemists discover new way to break down plastics

  • Aug 30, 2024

Program recycles plastic bags into composite decking, outdoor products

  • Aug 1, 2024

Upper Merion Township to ban use of plastic utensils this week

  • Jul 1, 2024

Plastic bags from Walmart recycling bins tracked Southeast Asia

  • Apr 24, 2024

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Many Philadelphia businesses are not complying with plastic bag law: Survey

  • Jul 9
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Tracking the trash: Are your plastic bags really being recycled?

  • May 23, 2023
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Plastic bag ban begins today in Radnor Twp.

  • Mar 15, 2023
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Plastic bag ban goes into effect in 2 Delco communities

  • Jan 3, 2023
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Plastic bag ban goes into effect in 2 Delco communities

  • Jan 2, 2023
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Ban on plastic bags, straws goes into effect in Media, Pa.

  • Jan 2, 2023
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Pending amendments could be coming to New Jersey's plastic bag ban

  • Nov 30, 2022
2:34

NJ senator looking to amend bag ban law to help online grocery shoppers

  • Sep 13, 2022

Latest Stories

Tracking the trash: Are your plastic bags really being recycled?

Working with ABC News and nine ABC stations we assembled bundles of recyclable plastic bags, each containing a tracking device to see if those bags are being recycled at all.

  • May 23, 2023

Plastic bag ban begins today in Radnor Township, Pennsylvania

Stores are allowed to give out recyclable paper bags for a 10-cent fee, but businesses that do not comply with the bag ban will face fines.

  • Mar 15, 2023

Plastic bag ban goes into effect in Media & Haverford Twp.

A plastic bag ban is now in effect in two Delaware County communities.

  • Jan 3, 2023

NJ senator looking to amend bag ban law to help online grocery shoppers

"We are saving so much on the grocery store side of it in terms of producing waste that this would be a quick and easy fix," said Senator Bob Smith.

  • Sep 13, 2022

New Jersey single-use bag ban: Everything you should know as law takes effect

Starting today, most grocery stores in the Garden State will not be allowed to give out single-use plastic or paper bags.

  • May 5, 2022