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The environmental nonprofit Oceana applauded Newsom for signing the bill and “safeguarding California’s coastline, marine life, and communities from single-use plastic grocery bags ...
On Sunday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that will close a legal loophole that has allowed for an increase in California's plastic bag waste, despite a 2014 law that was designed to ban ...
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 ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Sunday that will prevent grocery stores from providing plastic bags to customers beginning in 2026. The legislation comes 10 years after the state ...
Plastic waste in California has only increased in the years since lawmakers approved — and voters opted to keep — a ban on single-use plastic film bags at grocery stores.
With its passage, Senate Bill 270, which bans plastic shopping bags, was upheld and went into full effect. A related measure to allocate revenue generated from the sale of disposable carryout bags, specifically paper bags, to the Wildlife Conservation Fund, Proposition 65 , failed at the polls.
On July 14, 2008, the City of Manhattan Beach adopted Ordinance No. 2115 to ban the use of single use plastic bags at "retail establishments, restaurants, vendor or non-profit vendor. [2]" The plastic ban ordinance is only applicable to plastic bags used to take goods away from a store, but not produce bags from grocery stores.
One of the bill’s authors said she wants to close the ‘loophole’ and eliminate the 10-cent fee. Plastic bag ban isn’t enough, California lawmakers say. These bills aim to close loophole