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

A City Council hearing to address the budget for next year is scheduled for Tuesday morning, a day after a similar hearing ...

They're caught up in trees, squirreled away in kitchen pantries and floating along with the ocean's current. They're plastic bags — among the 84 billion that Americans use each year — and heightened ...

The amount of plastic from shopping bags has gone up in Washington despite a ban on single-use plastic bags, according to a ...

The cost of a reusable plastic bag will increase by 4 cents in the new year. A recent study questions the effectiveness of ...

Businesses with ambitions to shrink their plastic waste travel a rocky road. Their battle en route to their sustainability ...

The expanded plastic bag ban ignores evidence showing higher waste volumes and unintended environmental consequences ...

Shoppers likely would see a 10-cent fee per plastic and paper disposable bags at the checkouts of major supermarkets and Walmart by early 2014, according to policy direction given to city staff by the ...

Now that common grocery store refrain, "paper or plastic," is about to get a whole lot shorter. This spring, all 270 Whole Foods Markets nationwide are bagging the plastic bag, CBS News correspondent ...

CINCINNATI — The nation's largest grocery chain has begun to phase out the use of plastic bags, as more Americans say they're uncomfortable with their impact on the environment. Kroger Co. started its ...