The state’s ban on thin single-use bags had a loophole that let grocers sell shoppers thicker plastic bags for a small fee: just 10 cents. In theory, the heavier bags were reusable. But in ...

The new bag policy is in response to an uptick in retail theft across the state, an issue so problematic that state officials ...

Doesn’t everyone put items from the produce department of a grocery store into thin plastic bags? (“A Bag Ban to Fix California’s Bag Ban?” Review & Outlook, Aug. 17). The contents of my ...

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

California’s single-use plastic shopping bag ban went into effect in 2016, but plastic bag waste increased 47% to 231,072 tons by 2022 as stores shifted to selling much heavier, thicker plastic ...

"California’s current bag ban law, which allows businesses to replace thin plastic bags with supposedly reusable ones at checkout, clearly is not working," Jenn Engstrom, state director of ...

The report blames this on a “loophole” in the law. When the ban on thin, single-use plastic bags went into effect, shoppers were left with a choice between paper bags or heavier, multiuse ...

Exceptions include plastic bags for packaging meat, seafood, produce, bulk items and frozen foods. The thin, single-use plastic bags ubiquitous at grocery and convenience stores throughout the ...

It's been six years since the ubiquitous static cling of thin plastic bags that often broke under the burden of heavy groceries greeted shoppers at the end of the checkout line.

Blosser says while local Citadel and College of Charleston studies showed thin plastic bags appearing in litter going down, they were simply replaced by thick plastic bags and explosively.