Cupertino businesses and shoppers are adjusting to a future without plastic checkout bags but many said the alternatives ...

It's been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other ...

*Starting January 1, 2026, California will no longer allow any plastic carryout bags at store checkouts. This includes both thin single-use bags and thicker “reusable” plastic bags, which had been ...

two reusable grocery bags loaded with produce and bread held beside a person's legs - Zbynek Pospisil/Getty Images Just a few decades ago, folks got by just fine without plastic grocery bags. They are ...

A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at checkouts in grocery stores took effect Jan. 1. The bill, SB 1053 authored by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, bolsters existing state law that allowed ...

ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS, AND YOU MAY HAVE TO PAY FOR OTHER BAGS. OUR EMILY MAHER IS LIVE IN WALTHAM TONIGHT TO EXPLAIN. EMILY. WELL, MARIA, THIS ISN’T A NEW CONCEPT HERE IN MASSACHUSETTS. MANY CITIES AND ...

The Elgin Sustainability Commission has recommended the city implement a ban on single-use plastic bags. Elgin businesses don’t want one. Many residents, according to a poll, aren’t backing it. What ...

It's out with the plastic and in with the paper this year in Montgomery County, Maryland. A new plastic bag ban took effect New Year's Day with mixed reaction from shoppers. "I mean, as I was packing ...

Cupertino businesses and shoppers are adjusting to a future without plastic checkout bags but many said the alternatives ...