Gov. Maura Healey signed an executive order Thursday that she says will make Massachusetts the first state to ban the purchase of single-use plastic bottles by state agencies. Massachusetts buys about 100,000 of the plastic water bottles each year...

On a spring night in 2012, Janet Rothrock stood up at a sharply divided Town Meeting and vowed that if her neighbors joined her in approving the nation’s first municipal ban on the sale of single-use water bottles, their vote would send a stark message to the world...

An Interior Department order will end the sale of single-use plastic products at national parks and on other public lands in the United States by 2032. Sales of plastic water bottles and other single-use plastic products will be phased out at national parks and on public lands in the United States over the next decade, the Interior Department said this week...

Marin County supervisors gave their initial approval Tuesday of a ban on the use of single-use plastic containers and utensils at restaurants, bakeries and other businesses that sell food. The ordinance, which the board approved unanimously, will require businesses to offer to-go food containers made of fiber-based compostable material...

For the 6.8 million or so passengers who traverse through Los Angeles International Airport’s terminals each month, drinking water is going to look a different. The airport officially prohibited the sale of single-use water bottles last month as it works toward reducing its waste and becoming net zero by the year 2045...

In a bold move toward pollution control, San Francisco has become the first city in America to ban the sale of plastic water bottles, a move that is building on a global movement to reduce the huge amount of waste from the billion-dollar plastic bottle industry...

The city of San Francisco recently moved to ban the sale of plastic bottles on city-owned properties. Environmentalists hope measures such as these will expand to other locations to reduce the U.S. addiction to single-use items...

One of the main reasons people object to bans on single-use plastic products is that they fear being inconvenienced. How do I get my groceries from the checkout to the car without those free plastic bags? How can I possibly consume a frosty beverage if restaurants stop handing out plastic straws?

Plastic water bottles are a thing of the past at San Francisco International Airport. As of Tuesday, the airport’s shops, restaurants, lounges, vending machines or other retailers are no longer allowed to sell the bottles under a new policy...

New York City’s Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order on Wednesday, February 6, banning the sale of single-use plastic beverage bottles on city-owned and -leased properties. The move also bars city agencies from purchasing or selling beverages packaged in single-use plastic containers...

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio signed an executive order yesterday banning the sale of single-use plastic beverage bottles on city-owned and -leased properties—which means the bottles could vanish from an area nearly equivalent to a quarter of the city...

Bihar government has banned the use of plastic packaged water bottles in all its departments with immediate effect. The decision was taken by the state’s environment and forest department as part of its green initiatives

WUSTL is believed to be the first university to ban the sale and use of bottled water throughout its main campus. Faculty, students and staff on Washington University in St. Louis’ Danforth, North and West campuses no longer can find bottled water in vending machines or at most campus eateries...

Seattle University (SU) became the first in the state of Washington to stop selling plastic bottled water on campus, The Seattle Times reported. The announcement came after SU students campaigned for thee years to persuade the university to cut down on waste and make the school more sustainable...

The University of Vermont will become one of the first institutions nationwide to end the sale of bottled water on campus and mandate that one-third of drinks offered in vending machines be healthy options. The decision marks the advent of a long-awaited systematic sustainable beverage policy after years of lobbying by students and the greater campus community...

The University of Vermont banned the sale of bottled water on its campus in 2013...But the number of plastic, single-use bottles being shipped to campus went up, and students ended up using more single-use bottles and drinking less healthy beverages out of them. Now the university is trying to figure out how to balance sustainability and nutrition in on-campus beverage sales.