STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With the plastic bag ban in effect Sunday, there may actually be a renewed interest in the brown paper bag -- once used for covering school books, as most Gen Xers may recall.

Visual Systems Inc. has developed a plastic book cover and book jacket designed to be more durable than the traditional paper covers. The new product, BaseOne, allows printing directly on a plastic ...

Book covers appear to be the latest target of the Chinese government’s crackdown on plastic waste. According to a regulation dated Oct. 10 but published online Wednesday, the Ministry of Education has ...

ISLAMABAD: Chairperson of Senate Standing Committee on Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Tuesday sought a ban on the growing use of plastic covers on books, calling it an environmentally harmful ...