Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

California’s 2014 bag ban law focused on grocery stores, which can no longer give you one of those thin plastic bags. But they can sell you a heftier sack made of high-density polyethylene, or HDPE.

It’s been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

Does plastic bag recycling from stores like Target, Walmart work or still end up in a landfill? By Jason Knowles and Ann Pistone. Tuesday, May 23, 2023.

Story at a glance Many state and local governments have implemented plastic bag fees at grocery stores in an effort to curb Americans’ plastic pollution. But where does all the money from those ...

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 ...

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.

Walmart will eliminate single-use paper and plastic carryout bags at the register from stores in New York, Connecticut and Colorado this month. The company previously stopped giving out single-use ...

The banned bags are back. In 2017, Kenya passed a law banning single-use plastic bags — the kind that grocery stores and other vendors give you to hold your purchases.

According to CalRecycle, the amount of grocery and merchandise bags disposed by Californians grew from 157,385 tons of plastic bags the year California passed the bag ban to 231,072 tons by 2022 ...

According to Wegmans, shoppers at stores with plastic-bag bans use reusable bags, or no bags, in 75 to 80% of transactions. Customers buy paper bags p to 25% of the time.