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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shoppers carry their groceries in plastic bags while visiting the markets along Stockton Street in San Francisco in November. An ...

two reusable grocery bags loaded with produce and bread held beside a person's legs - Zbynek Pospisil/Getty Images Just a few decades ago, folks got by just fine without plastic grocery bags. They are ...

A recent trip to the grocery store was eye-opening, but the revelation was a couple of years too late. I bought meat packaged in shrink wrap. I bought soda and juice in plastic bottles. Cereal is less ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Seven years ago, the Ohio-based grocery chain Kroger pledged to get rid of plastic bags in all of its stores by 2025. Kroger made the announcement in August 2018, stating it ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — “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 ...

CLEVELAND — One year after debuting a reusable fabric grocery bag at its Cleveland area stores, Giant Eagle is switching back to plastic. The Pittsburgh-based chain will sunset the fabric option and ...

Washington shoppers will pay 4 cents more per plastic grocery bag starting in January. But the bags themselves won’t get any thicker for at least another two years as lawmakers fine-tune the state’s ...

I saw something at the grocery store this weekend that I haven't seen in years: a reminder to bring my reusable bags. As of Jan. 1, California's updated bag ban dictates there will be no more plastic ...