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Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

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 ...

Oct. 17—"Paper or plastic?" Your days are numbered. The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the ...

Four major plastic bag producers will no longer sell their grocery bags in California and will pay fines in a settlement California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Friday. The companies had ...

Limited mobility for nearly all Americans has still meant regular trips to the grocery store. That's right in the wheelhouse for Crown Poly Inc., which provides supermarkets with the Pull-N-Pak ...

After Pennsylvania passed legislation to bar townships from enacting plastic bag bans, a Centre County company got the brunt of some statewide criticism. Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, R-Benner ...

I do everything I can to avoid using plastic bags—I once bought several frozen groceries and opted to carry them home in my arms, like they were a baby. But every now and then, having forgotten my ...

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 ...