A cotton bag needs to be used between 50 and 150 times to have a lower climate change impact than a single-use plastic bag, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s 2020 report on ...

California implemented a ban on single-use plastic bags in 2016, but the law included an exception that allowed retailers to use plastic bags with a slightly thicker film coating, able to have ...

California California bill to eliminate plastic ‘reusable’ shopping bags advances by: Danielle Dawson Posted: Apr 17, 2024 / 04:33 PM PDT Updated: Apr 18, 2024 / 02:58 PM PDT ...

Cut plastic waste in your kitchen with simple swaps like reusable containers, avoiding single-use packaging, embracing glass ...

California bills to ban plastic ‘reusable’ shopping bags move forward by: Danielle Dawson Posted: Aug 30, 2024 / 03:55 PM PDT Updated: Aug 30, 2024 / 03:55 PM PDT ...

Those reusable bags, the report notes, contain 15-20 times the amount of plastic that’s in the traditional single-use shopping bags that are now banned in New Jersey.

When plastic bags end up in our waterways and landfills, it can take 20 years or more for them to break down. This initiative encourages people to go plastic-free by offering free reusable bags.

A ban on single-use plastic and paper bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect: Delivery services switched to heavy, reusable sacks — lots of them. By Clare Toeniskoetter Nicole ...

Rebecca Bauer-Kahan (D-Orinda) — in a 51-7 vote. Both bills would remove a provision from the state’s original ban allowing stores to use thicker, “reusable” bags made out of plastic film.

California bills to ban plastic ‘reusable’ shopping bags head to Newsom by: Danielle Dawson Posted: Aug 29, 2024 / 04:51 PM PDT Updated: Aug 30, 2024 / 05:37 PM PDT ...

California bills to ban plastic ‘reusable’ shopping bags move forward by: Danielle Dawson Posted: Aug 29, 2024 / 10:32 PM PDT Updated: Aug 30, 2024 / 03:12 PM PDT ...