Plastic bags are becoming a mere memory in California, where Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that bans them from being given out at grocery store checkouts. “Plastic bags create pollution ...

Each year the world produces around 400 million tons of plastic waste, much of it discarded after just a few minutes of use. Negotiators hope to reach the world's first treaty on plastic pollution ...

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 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 ...

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 cleaner ...

Negotiators hope to reach the world's first treaty on plastic pollution this year, but across five very different countries, AFP found single-use plastic remains hugely popular as a cheap and ...

Easy, convenient, cheap': how single-use plastic rules the ... with pandan leaf or blue with butterfly pea -- sit in clear plastic bags alongside rows of taro pudding in plastic boxes.

California's ban on plastic grocery bags is set to expand, but shoppers still have over a year to wait until paper becomes the only game in town. Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill into law ...

The state led the nation in 2014 by banning single-use plastic bags, but a loophole actually led to more plastic waste. By Soumya Karlamangla Reporting from San Francisco Paper or paper?

If you're planning on going grocery shopping in California, best to take your own bag. That's the implied message from state governor, Gavin Newsom, who announced that from 2026, plastic bags will ...