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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

“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 ...