The use of plastic grocery bags has been a significant contributor to plastic pollution. A 2024 report from Condor Ferries said that around 327 million bags from the US alone end up in the ocean ...

As we commemorate Earth Day April 22, it’s time to take the next step: Let’s reduce our use of plastic grocery bags. Americans use more than 100 billion plastic grocery bags each year.

Lawmakers have passed a pair of identical bills to ban all plastic grocery bags in the state of California. The companion bills, AB-2236 and SB-1053, both aim to completely prohibit grocers from ...

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

California state lawmakers have approved legislation that effectively bans all plastic grocery bags. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236, which prohibit grocery stores from offering any bags ...

Grocery shopping is full of frustrations without adding the use of wasteful plastic bags on top. Instead, try this bagging hack to never use plastic bags again.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

Paper bags tend to require more energy to produce than plastic ones. A 2011 study by Britain’s Environment Agency, for example, concluded that you’d have to reuse a paper bag three times to ...

CLEVELAND — One year after debuting a reusable fabric grocery bag at its Cleveland area stores, Giant Eagle is switching back to plastic. The Pittsburgh-based chain will sunset the fabric option ...