When you outlaw or discourage the sale of plastic bags, fewer of them end up as litter on beaches, a new study finds.

The market’s soundscape is a symphony of commerce and community. Vendors call out their wares in multiple languages, music ...

I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags.In the few years since that ban was enacted, I still see plastic thank-you bags around here, but now they are the heavier ...

COLTON, Calif., May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Vallarta Supermarkets, one of California's top Latino-owned grocery chains, is turning up the flavor on 40 years of community, culture, and quality ...

Whole Foods is axing a popular cost-cutting perk that pleased tree-hugging customers. For nearly two decades, the Amazon-owned grocer has given customers a 10-cent credit for each reusable bag ...

Governor Gavin Newsom just signed SB 1053, from Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D-Encinitas), into law, which will eliminate plastic bags at California grocery store checkout lanes. Those heavy-duty, ...

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.

California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly made them reusable and ...

"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

It's been a decade since California lawmakers first took aim at plastic shopping bags, but that law's failure spurred a new law that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed on Sunday.

In 2014, California made history as the first state to ban plastic grocery bags. Unfortunately, the law allowed grocery stores to still provide plastic bags so long as they were “reusable” and ...

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 ...