A plastic bag along a roadside in Sacramento, Calif., Oct. 25, 2013. Photo: Associated Press Doesn’t everyone put items from the produce department of a grocery store into thin plastic bags?

Plastic pollution can be harmful to human health, too. Microplastics are created when larger pieces of plastic break down ...

Park Ridge city leaders are considering either outright banning single use plastic bags or charging for them at major grocers ...

In another setback on the path to eliminating single-use plastic bags, another grocery chain has given up the effort to convert its customers. Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle is going back to plastic ...

There are two identical bills moving through the Legislature — Assembly Bill 2236 and Senate Bill 1053 — that would ban all plastic bags from grocery store checkouts beginning in 2026.

"There's a very good reduction in plastic bags in the UAE and we can judge it very well," Dr. Wernery said. "We do not find a ...

In general, Le says, it’s safe to reuse plastic bags in the most common ways, “such as using them to carry non-refrigerated food containers in place of a lunchbox, or even to transport clothes ...

In California, a 2016 ballot measure enacted a ban on single-use plastic bags, while offering thicker plastic bags for a fee at grocery store checkouts with the intention of customers reusing and ...

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.

In 2014, the Golden State passed SB 270, a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery, drug and convenience stores, in efforts to reduce the amount of plastic waste and encourage the ...

Although New York City implemented a plastic bag ban back in 2020 for grocery stores and shops, you’d be surprised how many stores still use them. My partner and I bring totes out to shop 90% of ...