Science says plastic bag bans really do work

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By Joseph WintersJun 19, 2025, 2:00 pm204 ptsTrendingTop
When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an analysis of policies to restrict plastic bag use across the United States. The study authors found that, in…

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