Louie Brown with the California Grocers Association said Senate Bill 270 — the bill that implemented the existing grocery bag law — worked initially. Then the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and grocers told customers not to bring reusable bags. Mark Murray, with Californians Against Waste, said the p...
Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in checkout lanes. “Instead of being asked do you want paper or plastic at checkout, consumers wil...
California would ban all plastic shopping bags in 2026 under a new bill announced Thursday in the state Legislature. California already bans thin plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and other shops, but shoppers at checkout can purchase bags made with a thicker plastic that purportedly makes t...
The article reports that the San Francisco city of California is scheduled to become the first U.S. city to prohibit plastic grocery bags. The ban has been approved by San Francisco's board of supervisors. Pharmacies and other retailers with five or more stores will be given 12 months to ...
health,” said the group’s director Jenn Engstrom. “Californians voted to ban plastic grocery bags in our state almost a decade ago, but the law clearly needed a redo. With the Governor’s signature, California has finally banned plastic bags in grocery checkout lanes once and for all.”...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California would ban all plastic shopping bags in 2026 under a new bill announced Thursday in the state Legislature. Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe! California already bans thin plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and other shops,...
“Nothing we use for just a few minutes should pollute the environment for hundreds of years,” said Laura Deehan, Environment California state director. “Finally, with this necessary update to the bag ban, plastic grocery bags will no longer be a threat to sea turtles, birds and other wild...
After all, if you ban or sharply curtail the use of single-use plastic grocery bags there will be fewer available to be littered.Continue readingIs California’s Bag Ban Really a Success?→ Lassen Manzanita Lake – By Smack (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons ...
our health," said the group's director Jenn Engstrom. "Californians voted to ban plastic grocery bags in our state almost a decade ago, but the law clearly needed a redo. With the Governor's signature, California has finally banned plastic bags in grocery checkout lanes once ...
If at first you don’t succeed, try again. That’s exactly what the California state legislature attempted to do last week, when it passed a law that will eliminate plastic bags from checkout lanes at grocery stores. Haven’t we seen this movie before, you might ask. We have, indeed....