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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A trip to the grocery store often feels mechanical: you go in, grab your usual list of necessities, pack them up, then head home ...

This year, California updated its plastic bag ban by allowing grocery stores to offer only paper bags at checkout. Will that ...

Low turnout at the Nov. 14 town hall meeting appeared to catch City Administrator Aaron Sera by surprise. The city had announced in advance that it wanted public input, including from local business ...

After plastic bag bans passed in the city of Charleston and surrounding municipalities, big retail stores such as Walmart and Target found a loophole: those extra-thick plastic bags that can be washed ...

Researchers find that nationwide policies to ban plastic bags may be paying off, with fewer showing up during coastal cleanups. Ever since their invention in 1959, plastic bags have become synonymous ...

California shoppers will once again have to leave plastic bags behind starting in 2026, as a new law closes a loophole that lead to the creation of thicker plastic bags. Lawmakers say the change is ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Some Roanoke shoppers are paying extra at the grocery store because of the city’s plastic bag tax. The tax went into effect at the start of 2022. Since then, every bag purchased at a ...

Illinois lawmakers are considering a bill that would charge shoppers a fee for carryout bags, with the goal of restricting ...