Since California adopted the nation’s first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014, most grocery stores have turned to thicker, reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be ...

Since California adopted the nation’s first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014, most grocery stores have turned to thicker, reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be ...

SACRAMENTO — Since California adopted the nation's first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags ... reusable plastic bags that are supposed to be recyclable. But Attorney General Rob Bonta ...

It takes 1,000 years for the bags to disintegrate, shedding hormone-disrupting chemicals as they do. And that outcome is all but inevitable, because no system exists to routinely recycle them.

Blakespear introduced the new bill. "However, the truth is almost none of those bags are reused or recycled, and they end up in landfills or polluting the environment." Before, grocery stores ...