The Oregon legislature has passed a bipartisan bill banning the use of plastic film checkout bags at restaurants, grocery stores and retail stores statewide.

Oregon’s ban on plastic grocery bags will kick up a notch under a bill headed to the desk of Gov. Tina Kotek. Beginning in ...

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A "stunning" £16 Primark bag looks similar in style to a £4,000 designer bag. Primark has long been popular for its ...

The legislation will prohibit stores and restaurants from providing heavier plastic bags, as well as fabric checkout bags, ...

Amazon shoppers are switching to glass food storage containers as a non-toxic way to store leftovers, meal prep, and more.

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law ...

New Jersey's single-use plastic bag ban, enacted in May 2022, is considered the strongest nationwide. The ban has eliminated over 24 billion plastic bags and 480 million paper bags from the waste ...

Photograph by Andria Lo, National Geographic I live in California now, the first state to ban single-use plastic bags. In the few years since that ban was enacted, I still see plastic thank-you ...

Shifting tides: Heavyweight reusable shopping bags were supposed to solve a problem. TheyǃÙve created a different one When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic ...

When Oregon banned retailers and restaurants from giving out plastic, single-use checkout bags in 2019, environmental groups hailed it as a big step forward in the fight against plastic waste.