Plastic Bag Bans Backfiring? These Efforts Come With Unintended Consequences

Medicine & Technology Apr 09, 2023

Though plastic bag bans were implemented with hopes to reduce plastic consumption, they actually led to unintended consequences that made the policy backfire. Read to learn more.

Shikagami: Deer Paper to Protect Nara's Sacred Deer and Economy

Oct 22, 2020

Some of Nara's sacred deer have died from ingesting plastic bags. With the deer and local economy in mind, a local entrepreneur invented edible, deer-friendly bags as new packaging.

Ditch That Plastic Bag And Save The Earth

Apr 19, 2019

If only people gave up their plastic bag addiction, the world would be a better place to live.