California strengthens its plastic bag ban, requiring grocery stores and retailers to offer only recycled paper bags by 2026. Environmental groups praise the decision, while the plastics industry ...

“Stores may offer paper bags at the point-of-sale, and they can also sell the canvas-style reusable bags ... corporation misled consumers by telling them that recycling was a viable solution for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Governor Gavin Newsom signs Senate Bill 1053, banning single-use plastic bags starting January 1, 2026. The new law aims to ...

Don't through away those plastic bags! Reuse them, turn your old shopping bags into a cool new kite by following these instructions. Feed some string through a new straw (Leaving about 10cm either ...

Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas), into law, which will eliminate plastic bags at California grocery store checkout lanes ... to limit the use of single-use plastic bags at certain stores in 2015 and ...

There has been a lot of talk about plastic recently, but how much do you know about it? Take this quiz to see if you are on top of your plastic knowledge.

The writer, a City Council member from 2009-22, authored Los Angeles’ bag ban. To the editor: Although I couldn’t agree more with the intent behind banning all plastic grocery bags ...

The ban on plastic bags in supermarkets is not a unilateral decision by the government but has been agreed upon in consultation with supermarket owners, she said. Alternatives such as jute ...

In India, on July 1, 2022, a nationwide ban came into effect on the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and ...

On Sunday, Judas Priest will be in concert at Blue Arena, and the Friends of the Library Used Book sale and Loveland Art ...