Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds

Click Here to Read: Banning Plastic Bags Works to Limit Shoreline Litter, Study Finds: Using crowdsourced data from shore cleanups, researchers found that areas that enacted plastic bag bans or fees had fewer bags littering their lakes, rivers and beaches than those without them by By Christina Kelso in the New York Times on June 19, 2025.

Marine debris litters a beach on Laysan Island in the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge, where it washed ashore. Image: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.