"This bag fee in addressing single-use plastic bags is currently the only tool we have at the state level in terms of ...

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

They’re so ubiquitous that we don’t even really see them anymore: a typical plastic shopping bag, the kind you get from the store. If you’re the average American shopper, you use about 700 of them ...

We want a strong, leakproof bag—reusable or not—that closes securely without a fuss and keeps food fresher for longer. Lisa ...

The Bag Monster is a shameless ham. Speaking with an affected Cookie Monster rasp and standing in the midst of an installation of about 45,000 disposable plastic bags–the amount of bags one person ...

A 5-cent tax on disposable plastic bags took effect in Richmond on Jan. 1, but Henrico County does not charge such a tax.

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

A bill intended to cut plastic waste would allow eateries to give out single-use cutlery and condiments only if customers ...

Fairfax County’s disposable plastic bag tax is now in its second year of implementation. The tax adds a cost of 5 cents for each disposable plastic bag used at a store. “In its first year, between ...

Didn’t we ban single-use plastic shopping bags in California? Yes — in 2014, though the law didn’t take effect until two years later because the plastic industry tried to overturn it on the 2016 ...

More stores in Boulder will charge a disposable bag fee starting next month. The Boulder City Council expanded its disposable bag fee ordinance to comply with the state's Plastic Pollution Reduction ...