California lawmakers have advanced a pair of bills that would ban stores from handing out multi-use plastic bags. Thinner single-use plastic bags, as opposed to the thicker multi-use kind, are already ...

Plastic waste is incredibly harmful to wildlife and the environment. Several U.S. states have taken action and banned the use ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Bel Air grocery store in the Pocket sells its own reusable bags for 10 cents. As of Jan. 1, the city of Sacramento bans ...

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

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco was the first city in the nation to get rid of single use plastic bags in 2007. In 2014, the rest of the state would also ban the so-called urban tumbleweed.

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home ...

According to a United Nations paper and media reports analyzed by Statista, 91 countries and territories in the world have passed some sort of full or partial ban on plastic bags. While plastic bag ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put out for recycling, so reusing them whenever possible is ideal. But how do you ...