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

In various cities and states, plastic bag bans have taken hold as a way to reduce pollution and prevent excess waste from harming the environment. But what differences have the laws made in ...

Under the county’s current laws, retailers charge 5 cents for plastic bags. Four cents go to the county for its Water Quality ...

and the PE is made domestically from natural gas,” a general manager of bag supplier Crown Poly said in a 2023 report (PDF) prepared by Freedonia Custom Research on behalf of an industry group, the ...

bright tote bags that look to be constructed from the same pliable, perforated plastic as Crocs. If you’ve spent time on the sidelines yourself, you’d likely recognize these totes immediately ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 cleaner ...

On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California’s plastic bag waste, despite a 2014 law that was designed to ...

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 ...