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 ...

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. "Plastic companies mass-producing thicker ...

Giant Eagle is shifting its approach to shopping bags once again. The grocery chain is replacing its fabric reusable bags ...

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 ...

Notable exceptions to the trend are France, Italy and—from 2022 onward—Germany, which have banned certain types of thin plastic bags and require them to be replaced with compostable ones—a ...

Oregon’s statewide plastic bag ban, the third in the country, prohibits stores from offering bags made of thin plastic film to customers at checkout. Thicker plastic bags that are intended to be ...

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.