California implemented a ban on single-use plastic bags in 2016, but the law included an exception that allowed retailers to use plastic bags with a slightly thicker film coating, able to have ...

Plastic bag policies led to a 25% to 47% reduction in the amount of disposable, thin plastic bag litter on America's ...

*California lawmakers recently approved two bills banning grocery and convenience stores statewide from offering reusable plastic bags. Advocates of the bills, AB2236 and SB1053, argue that these ...

Start saving the planet one single-use plastic bag at a time with these top picks for reusable grocery bags. As more cities and states ban single-use plastic shopping bags, reusable grocery bags ...

MORE: CA to start phasing out single-use plastic bags used for meat and produce: Here's why Number one, they have to be at least 40% post-consumer materials and can be reused 125 times, not 100 ...

In 11% of transactions, a customer purchased one of the new thicker plastic reusable bags; 3% purchased a recycled paper bag. The survey looked at the number of plastic and paper bags given out ...

When single-use bag regulations are in place, sales of plastic trash bags significantly increase. (Reuters/Jeenah Moon ) These reusable bags tend to travel, from public transit to restrooms to ...

While California was ahead of the curve with its single-use plastic bag ban, the loophole that allows stores to sell thicker, “reusable” bags for $.10 handicapped its overall effectiveness ...

Reusable plastic bags need to be used between five and 20 times -- depending on the type -- to cancel out the carbon footprint from creating one single-use bag, according to the United Nations ...

Purchasing 44 reusable bags that one time would add $15.40 to his grocery bill. In comparison, he said, his local Seattle-area Safeway charges 8 cents for a single-use bag — totaling about $3.50 ...