Grocery stores may offer recycled paper bags at checkout, or consumers can use their own bags to carry out purchases.

The new law also includes future requirements for paper bags. By 2028, paper bags offered at checkout must be made from at ...

California has entered a new phase of waste reduction as a statewide ban on all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores and ...

The law closes a loophole in the state’s 2014 plastic bag law by prohibiting all plastic checkout bags, including thicker ...

CHICO, Calif. - California’s tightened plastic bag ban took full effect Thursday, leaving shoppers with fewer options at ...

For more than two decades, Chico entrepreneur Andy Keller has had a simple answer to the familiar grocery-store question: ...

That’s because California is finally closing a major loophole in its plastic bag ban. Starting on Jan. 1, stores will be ...

California shoppers will have one less decision to make at the checkout counter starting Jan. 1, as the state enacts a ban on ...

California voters previously approved a statewide referendum upholding a ban on single-use carryout plastic bags in November ...

That stampede of customers at Trader Joe's isn't for the latest holiday dessert or snack: The grocery chain just released its ...

Remember long ago in the “Before Times,” when people concerned about litter and plastic pollution in the ocean brought reusable bags to grocery stores in California? After a pause of about three ...