SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A coalition of plastic film recyclers and reusable bag manufacturers today launched the Responsible Recycling Alliance (RRA), a coalition organized to help ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SAN FRANCISCO – Concluding his statewide investigation into plastic bag producers and whether the plastic bags they have sold ...

Repeat Performance:Pete Grande at Command Packaging’s facility in Vernon. While most plastic bag manufacturers in California and around the nation are pouring millions of dollars into defeating a ban ...

The Progressive Bag Affiliates has launched an initiative to promote bag recycling throughout the nation. Several of the country's biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags ...

The new California law bans all plastic carryout bags at grocery, pharmacy and convenience store checkouts, including thicker ...

Industry groups opposed to Los Angeles County’s newly passed ban on plastic grocery bags are weighing whether to file legal challenges against the ordinance. The Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, an ...

Book cover for Trent A. Romer’s “Finding Sustainability: The Personal and Professional Journey of a Plastic Bag Manufacturer.” The cover photo of the June 2018 National Geographic clearly showed the ...

That’s because California is finally closing a major loophole in its plastic bag ban. Starting on Jan. 1, stores will be ...

ALBANY — A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags "would mean the end of our business" if it goes into effect March 1 as written, the owner of a Melville plastic bag manufacturer told state ...

A company has gone to court seeking orders to lift the ban on the use of plastic bags. In its application filed at the High Court in Nairobi yesterday, Hi-Plast Ltd wants the ban by the Ministry of ...