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

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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 ...

VICENZA, Italy — Commissary shoppers in Europe will soon have to bring their own bags or purchase a reusable option as base grocery stores progressively phase out single-use plastic bags this month.

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.

SACRAMENTO, California — Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Sunday to ban plastic bags at most California checkout aisles, closing a loophole in a nation-leading bag ban from a decade ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...