"Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers ...
(AP) - "Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) —“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines inCaliforniaunder a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at superma...
An early plastic grocery bag from Ralphs, possibly from the late 1970s. | Photo courtesy of jerical cat/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday signed a bill banning California grocery stores from providing customers with plastic shopping bags. Supporters said the ban will help reduce...
Cities, countries, and grocery stores all over the world are straight-up banning single-use plastic bags — but one store is trying out a humorous approach when it comes to incentivizing reusable bags. Instead of the typical "have a nice day" message, Vancouver, Canada-based natural grocerEas...
Grocery stores have made moves in the last few years to attempt to align with Canada’s phasing out of single-use plastic. Loblaw announced in June 2022 that they would be phasing out all single-use plastic shopping bags by the end of the first quarter of 2023, while Metro stopped offeri...
California Bans All Plastic Bags at Grocery Stores Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLPon9/27/2024 On September 22, 2024, Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill (“SB”) 1053, which prohibits grocery stores from offering single-use plastic carry out bags for sale. Instead, stores must offer only paper bags...
Because of the increased volume of business,grocerystores have been running short on both paper and reusableplastic bags, he said. "We can't get them to stores fast enough," Fong said. Fong said that customers are not required to use bags, that they can also put their purchased items bac...
We all know it’s better for the environment to rid ourselves of single-use plastics, but another motivator is that it’s a money-saver too. More and more retail stores are charging for plastic grocery bags (if they even have them anymore) and who wants to just keep throwing money away...
New Jersey residents are approaching a significant milestone this December: seven months after the ban on single-use plastic bags. United States Waste & Recycling News