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California’s plastic bag ban is only part of a broader effort. What’s next?

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

Washington lawmakers push competing bills to ban plastic bags, reduce bag fee

Two weeks after the state increased the fee for reusable plastic bags, lawmakers are considering competing legislation that ...
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California implements statewide grocery plastic-bag ban

The new California law bans all plastic carryout bags at grocery, pharmacy and convenience store checkouts, including thicker ...
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Kroger's plastic bag phase-out: Delays and environmental implications

In 2018, Kroger pledged to eliminate single-use plastic bags by 2025 as part of its Zero Hunger, Zero Waste initiative.
The Santa Barbara Independent

With Plastic ‘Reusable’ Bags Gone, Santa Barbara Shoppers and Stores Adjust to California’s New Bag Rules

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

California's plastic bag ban at grocery stores now in effect

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

Plastic bag ban pleases some Ventura County shoppers, tears at others

California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags in 2014. The ban went to California residents ...

Plastic bag ban takes effect in Montgomery County

New year, new laws — Montgomery County’s plastic bag ban is now in effect. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports. It's out with the plastic and in with the paper this year in Montgomery County, Maryland. A ...