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

California shoppers are adjusting to a new reality at checkout counters across the state as plastic bags have been officially ...

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

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

Plastic bags are not biodegradable and pose a huge problem for the environment, the marine ecosystem in particular. These ...

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

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 ...

A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at checkouts in grocery stores took effect Jan. 1. The bill, SB 1053 authored by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, bolsters existing state law that ...

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

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