"Giving our kids the green, clean planet they deserve to inherit." State senators pass 'vital' new law banning single-use ...

Shoppers in Montgomery County may no longer have the option to use plastic bags in the future. New legislation introduced ...

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

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

Plastic pollution has become a major global environmental crisis. Millions of plastic or polythene bags are used and discarded each year, contributing to the pollution of land, rivers, and oceans.

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

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law banning plastic bags in September; advocates hope it helps to curb plastic waste.

Montgomery County leaders are considering a bill that would ban plastic carryout bags and place a 10-cent fee on paper bags.

California is banning single-use plastic ... Custom Research on behalf of an industry group, the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance. “Conversely, PP [polypropylene] bags are produced ...

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 ...

A decade ago, California became the first US state to ban single-use plastic bags, the flimsy sacks that regularly blew into waterways, littered streets and collected in landfills. The prohibition ...