Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the curb for recycling, so reusing them whenever possible is ideal.

Getty Images / SDI Productions Plastic grocery bags are no friend to the environment, but they're hard to avoid altogether. Plastic bags can’t be put to the curb for recycling, so reusing them ...

The phrase “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” always rubbed me the wrong way. So judgy. And yet, that’s what comes to mind when I consider the 2014 California ban on single-use ...

Plastic grocery bags are a significant contributor to global plastic pollution, and California is taking a big step up in tackling the problem. Thomas is a native of upstate New York and a ...

When two Texas cities prohibited stores from giving away plastic grocery bags for free ... “In each case, behaviors that weren’t directly targeted by the policy — like purchasing more ...

(The Hill) — 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 ...

22) on the costly and unsanitary grocery ... sanitary plastic bags at no charge and if you buy a drink in a restaurant or movie theatre etc., you get a plastic straw that doesn’t go soggy ...

When California’s first single-use plastic ... in grocery stores. It’s also partly because even the people who live in LA and show up at 8 a.m. to pick up trash don’t always reuse bags.