Los Angeles’s relationship with plastic grocery bags is a murky one. Although the city has, in the past, approved two laws banning the items and a similar one was enacted statewide, they’re ...

Instead of tossing plastic bags in the trash, use them around your home. Learn some of the most useful ways to repurpose plastic grocery bags. Think twice before tossing those plastic bags after ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California ...

while offering thicker plastic bags for a fee at grocery store checkouts with the intention of customers reusing and recycling the thicker bags. Eight years later, the state has updated the law to ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery ... gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 report prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an ...

California’s ban on all plastic bags used by grocery retailers has now become law. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236, which called for the elimination of plastic bags, were signed into law ...

On September 22, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1053, which prohibits grocery stores from offering single-use plastic carry out bags for sale. Instead, stores must offer only ...

In 2021, some 231,072 tons of plastic grocery and merchandise bags went to landfills, according to the state’s recycling agency ... gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 ...

TAKE A LOOK. THAT IS BECAUSE THIS WEEKEND THE GOVERNOR SIGNING A NEW PLASTIC BAG BAN AT THE GROCERY STORE CHECKOUTS. AND THIS INCLUDES NOW ALL TYPES OF PLASTIC BAGS. YOU MIGHT BE THINKING ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a law banning plastic bags from being sold at grocery stores, building on the state’s prior regulations of plastic bags. Newsom signed a bill Sunday, alongside a ...