EARTHNEST has the answer to the plastic bags problem. We are polluting our planet with five trillion plastic shopping bags a year. Plastic waste seems to be everywhere, hanging in trees, buried in ...

THEY are the eyesore emblems of a throwaway society, blighting the landscape and choking wildlife across the globe. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited ...

Plastic "bags for life" should be banned or raised in price, campaigners say, as new figures reveal a surge in the bags is fuelling a rise in the plastic packaging footprint of leading supermarkets.

A moth that prefers plastic to pullovers could help solve the problem of discarded shopping bags and packaging, researchers believe. The larvae of the greater wax moth normally thrive on beeswax, ...

SIR – Zac Goldsmith MP and his co-signatories (Letters, July 26) are labouring under a huge misapprehension in trying to banish polythene bags from our lives. Bought in quantities measured in ...

THERE were good reasons for introducing the 5p charge for plastic bags in Scotland last year. Not only are discarded carriers a threat to wildlife, they often end up in landfill and can take hundreds ...

With a target of reducing plastic bag usage by 70 per cent by next spring, retailers are doing all they can to minimise their waste, but has the problem been exaggerated? Liz Morrell sorts fact from ...

TRADERS and shopkeepers in an east Durham community have been urged so to support a drive to tackle the environmental problem of plastic bags. They have been invited to a Plastic Bag Free Seham at ...

As shoppers in England get used to paying 5p for plastic bags from today, some internet users say they are struggling to cope. BBC Trending reports on the mixed bag of reactions to the new charge.

A GROUP of children has been doing its bit to rid Bexley of the curse of the plastic bag. Nine Eco-Warriors from St Fidelis Catholic Primary School, Bexley Road, Northumberland Heath, and their ...

As shoppers in England get used to paying 5p for plastic bags from today, some internet users say they are struggling to cope. BBC Trending reports on the mixed bag of reactions to the new charge.