LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — BYOB has a new meaning: bring your own bags. You might want to if you shop at Petco or Sprouts, which now charge 10 cents per plastic bag at checkout. Las Vegans are used to free ...

That’s because California is finally closing a major loophole in its plastic bag ban. Starting on Jan. 1, stores will be ...

This is what the data says about plastic bag bans. Plastic bag bans have been popping up across the country for the past decade, but a lawmaker in one state is looking at walking back the law enacted ...

California voters previously approved a statewide referendum upholding a ban on single-use carryout plastic bags in November ...

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 ...

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On Dec. 19, at the Target store on Riverside Boulevard, stacks of plastic bags sat prominently at checkout counters—the only ...

Results are in for the first year of Philadelphia’s plastic bag ban. A study estimates the policy eliminated over 200 million plastic bags in the city — enough to fill City Hall every eight months.

Earthnest is a Business Reporter client. EARTHNEST has the answer to the plastic bags problem. We are polluting our planet with five trillion plastic shopping bags a year. Plastic waste seems to be ...

Before California banned plastic shopping bags statewide in late 2016, a wave of 139 California cities and counties implemented the policy themselves. Taylor and colleagues compared bag use in cities ...

Las Vegans are used to free plastic grocery bags where they shop, but now Petco and Sprouts are charging 10 cents per bag. Angelina Dixson reports. 27,473 people played the daily Crossword recently.