“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 shopping bags.

California’s 2014 bag ban law focused on grocery stores, which can no longer give you one of those thin plastic bags. But they can sell you a heftier sack made of high-density polyethylene, or HDPE.

Thin, single-use plastic bags were first developed in the 1960s in Europe. They appeared in U.S. grocery stores only in 1979 , edging out paper bags because they were significantly cheaper for ...

Under the current ban, which became law in 2014, California stores have been allowed to offer customers thicker plastic bags that are supposedly more recyclable.

“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 shopping bags.

California and other states — and some cities — have learned a lesson: Bans on plastic bags don’t always go as planned. In fact, California's original ban made things worse.

If a new law passes, the likely result is people like me – e.g., people who don’t want to live like vagabonds and will not drag gross old bags into the store – will have no choice but to buy ...

Paul Koretz, who pushed the L.A. City Council's ban on single-use plastic grocery bags in 2013, says he's never seen one of the thicker "reusable" bags actually get reused.

Last week, New York followed California by becoming the second state in the country to ban single-use plastic bags. The prohibition, which was included in the state budget, has been hailed by polit… ...

California had already banned thin plastic shopping bags at supermarkets and ... The California Legislature passed its statewide ban on plastic bags in 2014. The law was later affirmed by voters ...