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 ...

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 ...

Plastic shopping bags aren't recyclable ... request them in your local Buy Nothing group (find your community on the organization's website), or, in a pinch, buy some. A pack of 300 white bags ...

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 ...

I was recently down in the USA, down there they put your groceries in clean sanitary plastic bags at no charge and if you buy a drink in a restaurant or movie theatre etc., you get a plastic straw ...

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 ...

When California’s first single-use plastic bag ban went into effect in ... It says shoppers can either bring in their own bag, buy a paper bag or walk out with no bag at all.

An audit shows supermarket customers are charged less for plastic-wrapped produce more than 70 per cent of the time, and ...

It used to be, “Paper or plastic?” but now in Colorado, it’s “How many bags do you want to purchase ... Aurora uses the funds for its shopping cart clean-up initiative and future ...

If Bozeman residents approve the proposed ordinance this week, theirs will be the only locality in Montana to impose a prohibition on plastic shopping bags and styrofoam. BPO proponents tout it as ...