It's been more than a decade since California enacted a soft ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and other businesses.

Today, the second phase of Los Angeles’ plastic bag ban went into effect. That means smaller grocery stores can no longer hand out plastic bags, and have to charge 10 cents for paper bags. The law ...

Beaufort County is leading a broader effort to restrict bags and other items made of plastic. Beaufort’s preliminary vote was ...

Plastic bag bans and fees have spread across the United States, and new research show they're doing a good job at cutting down on litter, although some rules work better than others. In places where ...

The Park Ridge Committee of the Whole Meeting of the City Council passed the first reading of a plastic bag ban for large ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Paper or plastic?” You won’t be hearing that common question at California grocery stores any more starting Thursday, Jan. 1, ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The City of Philadelphia's ban on single-use plastic bags begins Thursday. Paper bags that don't contain at least 40 percent recycled content are also prohibited. Businesses ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTLA) – It’s been more than a decade since ...