New year, new laws — Montgomery County’s plastic bag ban is now in effect. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports. It's out with the ...

That’s because California is finally closing a major loophole in its plastic bag ban. Starting on Jan. 1, stores will be ...

For more than two decades, Chico entrepreneur Andy Keller has had a simple answer to the familiar grocery-store question: ...

Shopping bags are going 100% paper for 10 cents apiece statewide in California on New Years’ Day. Some consumers say they ...

Thurston County is pushing effort to reduce the number of plastic bags used and you have a chance to make yourself heard. The county is holding a "Community Conversations on Plastic Bags" series of ...

The backstory: The law began as Senate Bill 53, authored by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, to ...

While it’s safe to reuse plastic bags, you’ll want to clean them between uses for sanitary purposes and to reduce any lingering odors. Cleaning a zip-top bag is as simple as adding warm water and dish ...

A Los Angeles Times editorial is asking for a "do over" in the plastic bag ban that actually led to more plastic waste, according to a recent report. After California became the first state in 2016 to ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

Four years after Germany phased out light plastic bags, how has the EU addressed plastic waste — and why do single-use items ...

The Golden State has banned all plastic bags from grocery stores because, as Democratic state Sen. Catherine Blakespear said, “We are literally choking our planet with plastic waste.” Yes, literally ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank estimates ...