The new California law bans all plastic carryout bags at grocery, pharmacy and convenience store checkouts, including thicker ...

Grocery stores may offer recycled paper bags at checkout, or consumers can use their own bags to carry out purchases.

After a yearslong commitment to phase out single use plastic bags from its stores by 2025, here's where Kroger stands.

California has entered a new phase of waste reduction as a statewide ban on all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

California shoppers will once again have to leave plastic bags behind starting in 2026, as a new law closes a loophole that ...

California shoppers will have one less decision to make at the checkout counter starting Jan. 1, as the state enacts a ban on ...

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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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) recently released an online form to report businesses that are not adhering to the plastic bag ban. The plastic bag ban went ...