After a yearslong commitment to phase out single use plastic bags from its stores by 2025, here's where Kroger stands.

Laws restricting plastic-bag use in the U.S. have been largely successful, reducing use by nearly 300 bags per person per year, a new report found. The U.S. has introduced 500 citywide and 12 ...

It has been three years since New Jersey adopted landmark legislation that prohibited the use of single-use plastic carryout bags in all stores and single-use paper bags in grocery stores larger than ...

Plastic consumption in New Jersey spiked by nearly three times following the state’s implementation of a strict ban on single-use plastic shopping bags, a study found. "Following New Jersey’s ban of ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags, with upwards of 500 cities doing the same. More could be on the way. Environmental groups claim that these bags are ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The City of Philadelphia's ban on single-use plastic bags begins Thursday. Paper bags that don't contain at least 40 percent recycled content are also prohibited. Businesses ...

(The Hill) — Policies aimed at curbing the use of single-use plastic bags have sometimes accomplished the opposite of their intentions, a new study has found. When two Texas cities prohibited stores ...

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

Grocery bills are about to get a little more expensive thanks to a state-mandated 10-cent single-use plastic and paper bag fee set to take effect on Jan. 1. But avoiding the fees is as simple as ...

Aspen’s charge for single-use bags has been controversial, so much so it went all the way to the Colorado Supreme Court. In May 2018, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled against TABOR advocates in an ...

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