California has entered a new phase of waste reduction as a statewide ban on all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and ...

A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home to unload. But the truth is, each decision we make inside the store ...

While it’s safe to reuse plastic bags, you’ll want to clean them between uses for sanitary purposes and to reduce any ...

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The new law also includes future requirements for paper bags. By 2028, paper bags offered at checkout must be made from at ...

California's 2026 plastic bag ban ends all plastic checkout bags. Learn what’s changing and how it affects your shopping ...

The law closes a loophole in the state’s 2014 plastic bag law by prohibiting all plastic checkout bags, including thicker ...

Paper or plastic?” is no longer a question you’ll be asked at the grocery store beginning on Thursday. With 2026 just days ...

Some plastic alternatives need to be put in industrial compost facilities or require acres of land for production. Sway’s seaweed plastic needs neither. Inside the lab of the Bay Area-based startup ...

Consumers in California will no longer receive plastic bags, but paper bags, to reduce environmental pollution ...

As a recycling educator, I have to say no to Marge Congress’s plea for compostable produce bags (“Readers respond: Produce bags should be compostable,” Aug. 7). What Oregonians need to know is that ...