The township's board of supervisors unanimously passed a ban on single-use plastic bags ... new law will affect the King of Prussia Mall, the biggest shopping complex in the Philadelphia region.

Customers at Aldi, the discount grocery retailer, will no longer be able to purchase plastic shopping bags from the popular chain. Aldi announced this month that stores have ended the plastic-bag ...

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill banning plastic bags from grocery store checkouts, including the thicker, "reusable" bags that stores switched to after an earlier ban. “We deserve a ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Giant Eagle is preparing shoppers at its Pittsburgh stores for the city's plastic bag ban ... "We believe that shopping with reusable bags is an important way to support ...

International Plastic Bag Free Day is observed annually on July ... and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It’s stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ...

Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and other stores, but shoppers could purchase bags made with a thicker ...

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