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

Photo by Marcy Stamper The number of plastic bags used by shoppers has dropped since the state imposed a fee, but the amount ...

Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any thicker for at least another two years as lawmakers fine-tune the state’s ...

That’s because California is finally closing a major loophole in its plastic bag ban. Starting on Jan. 1, stores will be ...

A slew of new laws are going into effect on January 1 in Washington. One of them is a plastic bag fee increase, but is it ...

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste. The ban ...

On January 1st, 2026, the statewide minimum fees for plastic film carry-out bags will increase from 8 cents to 12 cents per ...

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 ...