Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jun. 26—Plastic Free July begins Monday. The Plastic Free Foundation answers questions about the challenge. 1 What are the rules ...

California is banning single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other retailers, after an earlier ban was blamed for making the waste problem worse. Here, a worker pulls a plastic bag from a ...

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact,... California’s first plastic bag ban made things worse. Now it’s ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...