City council members are awaiting a response from the court of appeals, after Athens Athens County Court of Common Pleas ...

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

Eight states have banned single-use plastic bags from stores, and the results of the bans have been a mixed bag, with some ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that ... gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 report prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of ...

Our newsletter catches you up with all the business ... Reusable bags are not new for consumers, especially since the city of Charleston and Charleston County enacted a plastic bag ban that ...

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

It also keeps the lightweight plastic bags out of trees or stuck in bushes for months at a time as they slowly disintegrate. The bags are notorious litter offerings, oftentimes ending up in area ...

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper?

California will no longer offer the option to ask for a plastic bag when checking out at grocery stores. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning the distribution of these bags across the state ...