There is a growing awareness about the negative effects. Lawmakers move forward on bill banning common grocery store item: ...

Plastic bags have a certain nostalgia in some Asian-American communities, both for their designs and as symbols of the thriftiness of reuse. As the bags are now being phased out due to ...

A BAN ON BAGS RIGHT NOW IN HARRISBURG. A STATE SENATOR IS PUSHING TO OUTLAW SINGLE USE PLASTIC BAGS AT RETAIL STORES ACROSS THE ENTIRE COMMONWEALTH. NEWS EIGHT’S MICHAEL FULLER IS HERE. WITH HOW ...

The company estimates the new bags will result in a reduction of nearly four million pounds of plastic. The new bags will come to all of Giant Eagle's Columbus stores except for its Bexley Market ...

In the first eight months after New Jersey's ban took effect in 2022, an estimated 16.5 billion plastic bags were removed from the waste stream, according to the New Jersey Food Council.In ...

Giant Eagle has reinstated plastic bags at its Erie County stores after removing them in 2022. Giant Eagle uses bags made of 75% recycled material and offers in-store recycling.

The Bag Waste Reduction Act took effect on March 1, 2020 — exactly five years ago — though the coronavirus pandemic and a lawsuit from plastic bag manufacturers delayed its enforcement for months.

Authors of a new plastic waste report, said after the plastic reduction law, roughly 16.5 billion single-use plastic bags and 110 million single-use paper bags were kept out of the waste stream ...

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.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - People living in one mobile home park have resorted to using plastic bags to go to the bathroom. That’s because they have been without running water for three days now.

The drug was found inside a cosmetic bag on the morning of Jan. 14 at Bunker Elementary School. Another teacher found it on top of a toilet paper dispenser and gave it to the principal who contacted ...