New Jersey's sweeping ban, part of the state's Get Past Plastic Act, has proved greatly effective in the fight against retail ...

"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 ...

As a result, consumer advocacy group CALPIRG claimed there's been a 47% jump in plastic bag waste tonnage over the past decade. "157,385 tons of plastic bag waste was discarded in California the ...

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 ...

A plastic bag sits along a roadside in Sacramento, California, Oct. 25, 2013. California state governor Gavin Newsom announced that plastic bags will not be offered in grocery stores from 2026.

SACRAMENTO — “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.

She pointed to a state study that found that the amount of plastic shopping bags trashed per person grew from 8 pounds (3.6 kilograms) per year in 2004 to 11 pounds (5 kilograms) per year in 2021.

1. Line Your Trash Bin One of the easiest and (most useful) ways to reuse plastic grocery bags is to line your trash cans with them. While they won't fit large trash cans in the kitchen or garage ...

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?

My partner and I bring totes out to shop 90% of the time, but the plastic collection still grows. I hate those bags to my core. So now I use the bags to make what I call "bag bubbles." ...