Thurston County is pushing effort to reduce the number of plastic bags used and you have a chance to make yourself heard. The county is holding a "Community Conversations on Plastic Bags" series of ...

California has finally solved its biggest problem. No, not the homelessness or poverty or cost of living or literacy. California has finally solved plastic bag waste. Problem solved? How could it not ...

Ten years after California approved a plastic bag ban that’s been blamed for making its plastic bag problem worse, the state is banning single-use plastic grocery bags entirely. In 2014, California ...

A Los Angeles Times editorial is asking for a "do over" in the plastic bag ban that actually led to more plastic waste, according to a recent report. After California became the first state in 2016 to ...

Plastic is a product that is ubiquitous in today's society, says Sarah Morath, Wake Forest professor of law and author of the book "Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It." The World Bank estimates ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The proposed Dubuque ordinance to discourage merchants from providing plastic bags would have unintended ...