Tag: Plastic Bag Ban

October 19, 2020

New York’s Bag Waste Reduction Law goes into effect on Monday, Oct. 19. following a six-month delay. The ban on single-use plastic bags at supermarkets, delis, and superstores is aimed at reducing the number of bags that are used across […]

April 3, 2020

Enforcement of New York’s single-use plastic bag ban has been moved from April 1 to May 15. The bag ban went into effect on March 1, and the law prohibits retail stores from providing single-use plastic bags, with some exceptions; […]

April 2, 2020

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee recently signed into law a legislation that bans the use of single-use bags in the state. The ban, which goes into effect on January 1, 2021, will include an 8-cent fee for paper and reusable bags […]

October 10, 2019

A Baltimore City Council committee just voted to amend a proposed ban on plastics bags by reducing the threshold for banned bags to 2.25 mils from 4 mils. Representatives of retailers and grocery chains in the city told the City […]

April 1, 2019

New York State lawmakers passed a $175.5 billion budget that includes a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. New York is now the second state in the nation—behind California—to ban single-use plastic bags in stores. All counties in Hawaii ban […]

January 15, 2019

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the 2019 Executive Budget will include a plastic bag ban and a bottle bill expansion. The legislation would ban all single-use plastic bags, and the expansion of the bottle bill, which would make […]

December 17, 2018

As of December 14, a ban on plastic bags at large and midsized grocery stores in Boston has gone into effect. The ban also applies at restaurants, where takeout orders will be packaged in non-plastic or renewable bags moving forward. […]