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 ...

Bangladesh is banning polythene and polypropylene bags across all major stores starting Oct 1 but the major green move is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two of the country’s leading supermarkets have been accused of misleading customers over recycling schemes involving their plastic bags. An investigation found Tesco and Sainsbury’s front-of ...

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 ...

To the editor: Los Angeles passed a ban on supermarket plastic bags in 2013, which the state followed with its ban a year later, preempting L.A.’s ordinance. But the state version had an ...

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 ...

“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 ...