California has a plastic bag problem — but not for long. California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law fully banning ...

Instead of tossing plastic bags in the trash, use them around your home. Learn some of the most useful ways to repurpose ...

The state is leading the charge in the war against plastic at grocery stores and in the courtroom as Santa Barbara continues ...

California state governor Gavin Newsom announced that from 2026, all plastic bags will be banned at all grocery store checkouts.

California became the first state to pass a plastic bag ban in 2014, but it's been blamed for making the problem worse. The ...

California finally fixed its ban, but at least five other states still allow the distribution of extra-thick "reusable" plastic bags.

On September 22, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1053, which prohibits grocery stores from offering single-use plastic carry out bags for sale. Instead, stores must offer only ...

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 ...

"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by ...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed SB 270 into law on Sept. 30, 2014. It required grocery stores to provide customers only with recycled ...

To the editor: Los Angeles passed a ban on supermarket plastic bags in 2013, which the state followed with its ban a year later, preempting L.A.’s ordinance. But the state version had an ...

“Stores may offer paper bags at the point-of-sale, and they can ... where the proportion of supermarket shoppers using at least one paper bag tripled after a plastic-bag ban took effect without ...