The improvement is an effort to shore up returns on beverage containers with 10-cent deposits, which took a big nosedive during COVID-19 shutdowns.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A machine removes a plastic bag from a conveyor belt in 2024 at Recycle Central in San Francisco. The state says plastic bags are ...

Plastic bags are bad. Ban them from supermarkets, and the problem is solved, right? Right? Right? Turns out, as is often the case, there may be a little bit more to that story. Researchers at the ...

Nine years ago California banned grocery stores from giving out flimsy single-use plastic grocery bags, the first state to do so. And the law has been facing obstacles ever since. Days after it passed ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- You may take the extra time to recycle plastic shopping bags by bringing them to a retailer's plastic bag recycling bin. For months, the I-Team and ABC news tracked plastic bags that ...

Maybe you’ve seen the signs at your local grocery store. New Jersey’s plastic bag ban — about to be the strictest in the nation — is starting May 4 and shoppers need to be prepared. While the law may ...