The move follows a successful test of the solution in late 2023. Credit: SPAR Hungary. Supermarket chain SPAR Hungary has introduced recyclable shopping bags made from the company’s plastic waste in ...

Sort them into matching sizes and colors. If you've already mastered the art of creative ways to store your reusable shopping ...

which found that a nominal plastic bag fee led many consumers to grab plastic produce bags to use for other items. California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores ...

A new study suggests plastic debris like shopping bags bear remarkably similar “echoes” to those of squid—likely due to some combination of their shape, size, degree of weathering ...

While a January 2024 study shows that similar bans across the country have cut single-use plastic bag consumption significantly, many reusable shopping bag options are not particularly sustainable.

Under the expanded law signed by Newsom, any and all plastic bags will be banned from grocery stores, permitting stores to let customers use their own reusable bags or buy a paper bag. There's ...

Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores from ...

What would be the solution and should we follow the latest example of the ban introduced by Montenegro? In the market, groceries in plastic bags. This is the most common picture when shopping in ...

There are currently 25 “reusable” grocery store-style bags sitting at my front door, half a dozen large shopping bags and a similar number of bags with dividers to carry bottles home from the ...

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Falling in line with new California requirements that go into effect in 2026, the Napa County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance Tuesday to ban single-use plastic bags and foodware.