Does California have a ban on plastic bags ... who get bags for their groceries get all-new HDPE bags every time. (Oh, and have you noticed that most of these “don’t forget your reusable ...

Sen. Judith Schwank says plastic pollution poses serious threats to our environmental rights, public health and community ...

Which isn’t to say they don’t work. Areas with bans can eliminate almost 300 single-use plastic bags per person per year, according to a study released last month by Environment America.

Our tip: Save your old tissue boxes and use them as plastic bag ... You can reuse plastic grocery bags time and time again, and you don't have to merely stuff them into an ever-growing heap ...

If they don’t get reused a certain amount of time ... On the disposal side, single-use plastic bags are currently not recyclable, but that’s because the bags are so flimsy they can get ...

It was a decade ago when California became the first state in the nation to ban single-use ... plastic bags that technically meet that definition of reusable but are clearly not being reused and ...

and plastic shopping bags. They sent out a survey and received almost 1,500 responses. “One of the first questions we asked was, just really simply, ‘Why don’t use reusable bags?’” ...

Over the past several years, US cities and states have passed hundreds of policies restricting the sale and distribution of single-use plastic ... don’t reuse the thicker bags in practice.

When the ban on thin, single-use plastic bags went into effect ... canvas but is made of plastic. Grocers don’t mind if the government bans other bags if they can sell these at about a dollar ...

We don’t want plastic in the ocean ... that “Reusable bags can be environmentally superior to [single-use plastic bags], if they are reused many times. For example, a cotton bag needs to ...

Single-use plastic has enormous environmental damage ... rather than sell consumers heavy-duty bags they don't need, Ekvall said. Enck stressed it was better to reuse plastic bags as much ...