Plastic shopping bags, which have low recycling rates and often become litter when they blow away in the wind, are among the biggest culprits of plastic pollution in the ocean and along shorelines.

Cupertino businesses and shoppers are adjusting to a future without plastic checkout bags but many said the alternatives ...

Several cities and some countries institued bans on plastic shopping bags but abandoned them during the COVID-19 ...

State and local policies to regulate the use of plastic bags have significantly reduced how many of them are found littered along U.S. shorelines — potentially cutting that type of waste in half in ...

Park Ridge city leaders had another discussion at the City Council Committee of the Whole meeting Monday night about potentially banning plastic grocery bags. The council is not expected to formally ...

A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at checkouts in grocery stores took effect Jan. 1. The bill, SB 1053 authored by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, bolsters existing state law that allowed ...

Cupertino businesses and shoppers are adjusting to a future without plastic checkout bags but many said the alternatives ...

California's plastic bag ban took effect Jan. 1. The ban was signed into law more than a year ago. Paper beats rock. Scissors beats paper. The question shoppers outside a WinCo Foods grocery store in ...

Today, the second phase of Los Angeles’ plastic bag ban went into effect. That means smaller grocery stores can no longer hand out plastic bags, and have to charge 10 cents for paper bags. The law ...