It was wrapped in a SuperValu plastic bag. File picture: Anne Marie Cronin The skull found in a plastic bag on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork will be sent to the North of Ireland for testing to ...

While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...

Giant Eagle has reinstated plastic bags at its Erie County stores after removing them in 2022. Giant Eagle uses bags made of 75% recycled material and offers in-store recycling. Plastic bags are ...

Since March 1st, 2020, stores and customers in the Empire State had to make a change. Plastic bags would no longer be allowed, triggering an uptick in people bringing reusable bags. “I’m glad ...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — After five years of the Bag Waste Reduction Act, Price Chopper and Market 32 are reflecting on the switch from plastic bags to paper or reusable ones. According to ...

PLAINWELL, Mich. — A local school district is working to reduce the amount of plastic bags that go into the environment. Plainwell Community Schools is collecting plastic bags from now until the ...

Imagine a science lesson without Bunsen burners; a maths lesson without calculators. I remember the first time I walked into a music department and realised that it contained no instruments whatsoever ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) An AI-driven routing algorithm for plastic-collecting ships increases ocean plastic removal efficiency by over 60% without raising costs. The model rapidly ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — It has been just over five years since former Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the New York State Bag Waste Reduction Act, which meant all stores collecting sales tax were no ...

"I was like 'I’m cool with it,'" said Victoria Hall. New York state’s 2020 ban on plastic bags was an effort to address the environmental impacts of plastic waste. Before the ban, an estimated ...