California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a cleaner ...

Come March 1, New York State will say sayonara to plastic bags for good. In New York State, where more than 23 billion plastic bags are typically used each year, they cause harm to wildlife and hinder ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — “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.

There is a big shake-up to trolleys at two major supermarket chains and it will make them easier to steer. New American-style plastic shopping trolleys are being trialled at two supermarket chains in ...

Ocado sold more plastic bags than any other retailer (Getty) The sale of plastic bags has risen in Britain for the first time since the ‘bag ban’ was brought in in 2015. Last year, 437 million plastic ...

Campaigners say these bag hoards are creating fresh environmental problems, with reusable bags having a much higher carbon footprint than thin plastic bags. According to one eye-popping estimate, a ...

Before California banned plastic shopping bags statewide in late 2016, a wave of 139 California cities and counties implemented the policy themselves. Taylor and colleagues compared bag use in cities ...

The body of a man was discovered inside a shopping cart at a northern California grocery store on Sunday afternoon in a case that authorities are investigating as a homicide. Officers responded to ...

The Philippines uses 17.5 billion plastic shopping bags and about 60 billion plastic sachets a year, generating so much waste that local governments are unable to cope, according to the Global ...

Police are investigating a grisly Bronx discovery after a man's body was found wrapped in a plastic bag and shoved into a shopping cart, police said. The grim find was made after a 911 call was place ...