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

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in checkout ...

Paper bags would return to grocery stores in New Jersey were he elected governor, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday. Since May 2022, large grocery stores and big box stores in ...

The new law also includes future requirements for paper bags. By 2028, paper bags offered at checkout must be made from at ...

A big change is coming to California supermarkets: The days of a cashier asking “paper or plastic?” are soon to be long gone. Starting Jan. 1, 2026, grocery stores, pharmacies, liquor and convenience ...

In the midst of the holidays, New Jerseyans are approaching a sustainable milestone this December: seven months into the state’s single-use plastic bag ban. Since May 4, the law has banned single-use ...

California voters previously approved a statewide referendum upholding a ban on single-use carryout plastic bags in November ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh's plastic bag ban took effect on Saturday, but it's paper bags, not plastic, that are getting more attention today. As KDKA-TV money editor Jon Delano reports, consumers ...

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Consumers in California will no longer receive plastic bags, but paper bags, to reduce environmental pollution ...