The state is reviewing draft rules for producers to make single-use packaging and food packaging recyclable and compostable ...

California shoppers are adjusting to a new reality at checkout counters across the state as plastic bags have been officially ...

Two weeks after the state increased the fee for reusable plastic bags, lawmakers are considering competing legislation that ...

California voters previously approved a statewide referendum upholding a ban on single-use carryout plastic bags in November 2016. Under Senate Bill 270, grocery stores had to start charging at least ...

After a yearslong commitment to phase out single use plastic bags from its stores by 2025, here's where Kroger stands.

California shoppers will once again have to leave plastic bags behind starting in 2026, as a new law closes a loophole that ...

California’s revised carryout bag law, which took effect January 1, eliminates the exemption that allowed thicker plastic ...

Thicker bags have proliferated in the wake of the statewide ban on thin plastic bags took effect in 2021. Now, some cities ...

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

Have you ever wondered why some plastic bags are stronger than others? Why bags from clothing stores at the mall tend to be strong and thick, whereas those from your local grocery store are flimsy and ...

Every year, around 500 billion plastic grocery bags are used worldwide. And an estimated 10 million tons of plastic are discarded in the ocean yearly. To help combat this waste, several American ...

Scientist and amateur beekeeper Federica Bertocchini picked parasitic wax worms from the honeycomb of her beehives and left them sitting in a plastic bag. When she returned to the bag, it was riddled ...