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

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

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a graduate of ...

They're caught up in trees, squirreled away in kitchen pantries and floating along with the ocean's current. They're plastic bags — among the 84 billion that Americans use each year — and heightened ...

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

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 ...

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

California shoppers will once again have to leave plastic bags behind starting in 2026, as a new law closes a loophole that lead to the creation of thicker plastic bags. Lawmakers say the change is ...

Lawmakers are discussing a new bill aimed at expanding the state's existing plastic bag ban while increasing the fee for ...

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