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

With plastic bags in the environmental crosshairs, equipment maker CMD Corp. planned to use NPE2021 to put a full-scale production line on the show floor making greener trash bags with a plant-based ...

Tired of being cast as an environmental villain, it is challenging proposals in several U.S. cities to limit the use of plastic bags at supermarkets and other retail stores. A few of the nation's ...

The Bel Air grocery store in the Pocket sells its own reusable bags for 10 cents. As of Jan. 1, the city of Sacramento bans grocery stores, large pharmacies and convenience stores from offering single ...

Does California have a ban on plastic bags? The goals of Senate Bill 270, the so-called plastic bag ban, spoke to the “three Rs” of waste reduction: Reduce the number of plastic bags Californians use, ...

New York’s Suffolk County had a trash problem. Facing brimming landfills and public pressure, legislators took a first-in-the-nation step: They banned plastic bags. But what the county saw as part of ...