California's plastic bag ban aimed to reduce waste and increase recycling, but it hasn't worked out as planned. What went wrong? California's plastic bag ban is failing.

Earlier this year, CALPIRG released a report showing that the volume of plastic bag waste in California had actually increased since 2014, as a result of the loophole in a previous ban. (Raul Roa ...

According to the California Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recycling arm, CalRecycle, the 2014 law hasn't made a dent in the state's plastic waste problem-in fact, the issue has only ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

Newsom signs California plastic grocery bag ban by Ashleigh Fields - 09/23/24 9:09 AM ET. ... Not a single municipal recycling facility in California accepts them, the Los Angeles Times reported.

In 2014, 157,385 tons of plastic bag waste was discarded in California. By 2021, that tonnage had skyrocketed to 231,072 — a 47% jump. Even accounting for an increase in population, the report ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1053 into law on Sunday, which bans plastic bags from being provided at grocery store checkouts. The Golden State was the first in the country to enact a law ...

The new measure, approved by state legislators last month, bans all plastic shopping bags starting in 2026. Consumers who don’t bring their own bags will now simply be asked if they want a paper bag.

Gov. Newsom signs legislation to ban plastic bags from California grocery stores 00:45 "Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law ...

State governor signs new law effectively banning all plastic bags at grocery stores: 'It's in our food, air, water, and even our bodies' first appeared on The Cool Down. The Cool Down ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, signed a new statewide plastic bag ban Sept. 22.