Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Plastic bags littering the shoreline is a common sight on beaches around the world. The researchers combined information on ...

California’s plastic grocery bag ban just went into effect. The new law, authored by State Sen. Catherine Blakespear, D-Encinitas, closes a loophole in the state’s initial bag ban from 2014 that ...

The Park Ridge Committee of the Whole Meeting of the City Council passed the first reading of a plastic bag ban for large ...

Plastic bag bans and fees have spread across the United States, and new research show they're doing a good job at cutting down on litter, although some rules work better than others. In places where ...

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*Starting January 1, 2026, California will no longer allow any plastic carryout bags at store checkouts. This includes both thin single-use bags and thicker “reusable” plastic bags, which had been ...

When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches. That’s the intuitive finding of a paper published Thursday in the journal Science, which involved an ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The City of Philadelphia's ban on single-use plastic bags begins Thursday. Paper bags that don't contain at least 40 percent recycled content are also prohibited. Businesses ...

In 2016, California voters voted to uphold a ban on thin single-use plastic bags, which were what most stores offered. However, since this ban was passed, stores began passing out thicker plastic bags ...

Plastic grocery bags are no longer allowed at checkout in California — the first state in the nation to ban them. KPBS environment reporter Tammy Murga explains how the new law fits into California’s ...

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