This year, California updated its plastic bag ban by allowing grocery stores to offer only paper bags at checkout. Will that ...

More than five months into New Jersey’s strict ban on plastic bags, a pair of state lawmakers are calling for an audible. State Sens. Bob Smith, D-Middlesex, co-sponsor of the law to ban plastic bags, ...

RIZHAO, SHANDONG, CHINA, January 21, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As we navigate the beginning of 2026, the global ...

More than 50. No wait, definitely at least 100. Katiuska Tejada-Rivera can’t quite put her finger on how many reusable bags she’s accumulated in the more than four months since New Jersey’s single-use ...

The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it's definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in place in almost a dozen US states and in many other countries around the ...

Shoppers make their way out of a Hannaford Supermarkets store with their purchases in either paper bags or reusable bags on Sunday, March 1, 2020, in Colonie. A sign at the Stewart's in Troy on Sunday ...

They hold up to 50 pounds.

Last year, Colorado implemented a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. My kitchen has seen the impact of the ban in one way: stacks of paper bags (I’m bad at remembering my reusables!). No need ...

The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in place in almost a dozen US states and in many other countries around the ...