The new California law bans all plastic carryout bags at grocery, pharmacy and convenience store checkouts, including thicker ...

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

A new California law has banned plastic carryout bags at checkout counters statewide, requiring stores to offer paper bags ...

A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at checkouts in grocery stores took effect Jan. 1. The bill, SB 1053 authored by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, bolsters existing state law that ...

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 ...

"Paper or plastic?" will no longer be a question in California grocery stores and convenience stores. Starting in January, ...

Under Senate Bill 1053, most grocery and retail stores statewide may now offer only reusable bags or recycled paper bags, ...

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law enacted ...

A family collect plastic waste on the shore inn Ocean Conservancy's clean up in the Norwegian Northern town of Skjervøy. Plastic bag bans in the U.S. have proven effective in reducing plastic litter ...