(OPB) Oregon’s ban on plastic grocery bags will kick up a notch under a bill headed to the desk of Gov. Tina Kotek. Beginning ...

because they were the poster child for everything wrong with the proliferation of unnecessary plastic. California’s bag ban has been in effect since 2016. But are grocery store customers ...

Senate Bill 551, awaiting Gov. Tina Kotek’s signature, will bar retailers and restaurants from offering plastic bags to customers at checkout.

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014 ...

According to the co-sponsor memo, retailers would be forbidden from giving out plastic bags at check out and would be asked ...

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law ...

In various cities and states, plastic bag bans have taken hold as a way to reduce pollution and prevent excess waste from harming the environment. But what differences have the laws made in ...

Plastic film recycling is real, and expanding recycling infrastructure and promoting consumer education are more effective than bans.

Whoops, plastic in the garbage went up, not down. Naturally, California politicians now think this justifies another new ban on carryout bags that will further inconvenience citizens. Specifically ...

While a handful of suburban communities, including Batavia, Chicago, Northbrook, Oak Park and Woodstock, have implemented fees on single-use plastic bags, Evanston is the only town to ban them all ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...