The two most common cloth materials in reusable grocery bags are cotton and bamboo. Durable cotton bags can handle machine ...

The California Grocers Association endorsed the ban on reusable plastic grocery bags when the two bills were introduced to the California Senate and General Assembly. “We know even the best ...

The legislation comes 10 years after the state banned plastic grocery bags and required stores to distribute reusable or recyclable plastic bags. State Sen. Catherine Blakespear (D) described the ...

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 ...

the state legislature passed a law banning the use of plastic bags both at grocery stores and at retail venues. That being said, the law allowed establishments to offer customers “reusable ...

because consumers would opt to pay a small fee for the heavier "reusable" plastic bags offered by grocery stores instead. However, consumers typically threw these bags away. As a result ...

California lawmakers toughened the state's ban on plastic grocery bags by outlawing the sale of reusable ones — which actually increased the amount of waste tossed in the trash. Gov. Gavin ...

"This bill seeks to reduce the usage of single-use bags and encourage consumers to bring their own reusable bags to the grocery store," the bill's authors wrote. "With the intention of this bill being ...

The law now stipulates that bags contain a minimum of 40% post-consumer recycled material and be accepted for recycling by a majority of curbside programs. Despite a previous ban on single-use ...