Paul Koretz, the former City Council member who authored L.A.'s plastic bag ban in 2013, praises the Legislature for fixing ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who signed one of the first municipal bag bans in the U.S. as mayor of San Francisco in 2007, ...

Re “Newsom signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at California grocery stores” (Sept. 22): Don’t you just love the ...

I hope Gov. Gavin Newsom quickly signs this important legislation into law. To the editor: I was very involved in opposing the state’s first plastic bag ban 10 years ago on the grounds that the ...

Despite global concerns over the accumulation of plastic waste, the drive to produce new plastics shows no signs of slowing down. According to OECD data, the world’s annual plastic production ...

To the editor: To combat plastic pollution in our oceans, we need to cut back on plastic production, not try to capture the endless stream of it. A recent article in The Times on an effort to ...

Doesn’t everyone put items from the produce department of a grocery store into thin plastic bags? (“A Bag Ban to Fix California’s Bag Ban?” Review & Outlook, Aug. 17). The contents of my ...

(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Sunday that will prevent grocery stores from providing plastic bags to customers beginning in 2026. The legislation comes 10 years after the state banned ...

She pointed to a state study that found that the amount of plastic shopping bags trashed per person grew from 8 pounds (3.6 ...

Tipperary-based Trifol Resources has entered into an agreement with Shell Chemicals Europe to supply pyrolysis oil derived from waste plastic. The oil can be further processed into other products.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — “Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic ...