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Los Angeles’s relationship with plastic grocery bags is a murky one. Although the city has, in the past, approved two laws banning the items and a similar one was enacted statewide, they’re ...

California will no longer offer the option to ask for a plastic bag when checking out at grocery stores. Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning the distribution of these bags across the state ...

Governor Newsom issues a new law that bans all plastic bags beginning next year due to a lack of reducing waste, even with the previous ban a decade ago. News Today's news ...

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 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 had ...

On September 22, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1053, which prohibits grocery stores from offering single-use plastic carry out bags for sale. Instead, stores must offer only ...

California’s ban on all plastic bags used by grocery retailers has now become law. Senate Bill 1053 and Assembly Bill 2236, which called for the elimination of plastic bags, were signed into law ...

With the Governor’s signature, California has finally banned plastic bags in grocery checkout lanes once and for all.” As San Francisco’s mayor in 2007, Newsom signed the nation’s first ...