When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.

A temporary ban on plastic bags used to carry groceries and other items purchased at stores throughout Carlsbad is set to go ...

Carlsbad’s trial run for a single-use plastic bag ban will begin this weekend. Starting Saturday, retailers and restaurants will be barred from offering plastic bags to their customers. They are ...

Authors of the new plastic waste report, echoing the first-year report, said after the plastic reduction law roughly 16.5 ...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff were spotted exiting a grocery store Thursday with plastic ...

A year after Frederick’s ban on businesses distributing plastic bags to customers, the measure seems to have achieved its ...

Grocery shopping in Annapolis minus the convenience of plastic bags. Customers we spoke with seem to be okay with it. “I ...

It's particularly annoying at convenience stores where you often see people struggling to get their three or four things back ...

It took almost 20 years, but Annapolis’ Plastic Bag Reduction Act is now in effect. The page about the ordinance on the ...