In 2018, Kroger pledged to eliminate single-use plastic bags by 2025 as part of its Zero Hunger, Zero Waste initiative.

The state is reviewing draft rules for producers to make single-use packaging and food packaging recyclable and compostable ...

With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

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

A Los Angeles Times editorial is asking for a "do over" in the plastic bag ban that actually led to more plastic waste, according to a recent report. After California became the first state in 2016 to ...

It’s both easy and hard to miss plastic grocery bags—easy because they’re strong, light, free, and they can double as little trash bags once you’ve got them home and emptied out your groceries, and ...

California banned single-use plastic grocery bags in 2016, becoming the first state to take this major environmental step. In the eight years it has been in effect, billions of flimsy plastic bags ...

Conveyors send mixed plastic into a device that will shred and then recycle them at recycling plant in Vernon on Jan. 24, 2014. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press) Ever since their invention in 1959, ...

California shoppers will once again have to leave plastic bags behind starting in 2026, as a new law closes a loophole that lead to the creation of thicker plastic bags. Lawmakers say the change is ...

Two weeks after the state increased the fee for reusable plastic bags, lawmakers are considering competing legislation that would either reduce the fee and reintroduce thinner, single-use plastic ...

New year, new laws — Montgomery County’s plastic bag ban is now in effect. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports. It's out with the plastic and in with the paper this year in Montgomery County, Maryland. A ...

A new California law has banned plastic carryout bags at checkout counters statewide, requiring stores to offer paper bags ...