It ended up providing a lesson for other state and even local governments to learn from and to not allow loopholes like ...

Los Angeles’s relationship with plastic grocery bags is a murky one ... of plastic will be banned at the point of sale (though protective plastic bags for things like meat and produce that ...

California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning ...

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 ...

Starting Jan. 1, all Californians should see the rollout of a state law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2022 requiring that those ...

But because of a loophole in its initial ban that allowed grocers to charge for thicker plastic bags, California still dumped 231,072 tons of plastic grocery ... the point-of-sale, and they ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers ... “Stores may offer paper bags at the point-of-sale, and they can also sell the canvas-style reusable ...

“Stores may offer paper bags at the point-of-sale, and they can also sell the canvas ... telling them that recycling was a viable solution for plastic waste. In 2021, some 231,072 tons of plastic ...