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For a few years, single-use plastics like straws and water bottles were a hot-button issue, mainly because they’re so ...

If it becomes law, it would ban all plastic bags and automatically offering plastic utensils and condiments as of July 2026 and ban plastic packaging on single-use hotel toiletries as of July 2027 ...

Single-use condiments and cutlery would be available only upon request beginning July 1, 2026. Thicker plastic bags would be banned at stores and restaurants as of Jan. 1, 2027.

Plastic Free July is designed to help people reduce their use of single-use plastics and improve recycling practices.

They want the full ban on plastic bags to begin in January 2027 rather than July 2026 as currently written. That’s because a similar bag ban passed in California last year will kick in next January.

There are options like corn-based plastic cups, bamboo, even edible cutlery and biodegradable bags. Why the U.S. is so far behind in this sensible action is a head-scratcher.

HOBOKEN, New Jersey (WABC) -- Beginning Sunday in Hoboken, plastic utensils won't be in delivery bags - unless customers ask for them. The City Council passed the legislation known as 'Skip the ...

Besides reducing litter and eye pollution, recycled plastic bags reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. A number of states, including California Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Yor… ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Since the Oregon Legislature voted to ban single-use plastic grocery bags and limit plastic straws in 2019, most Oregonians have grown used to bringing their own bags to the ...

If it becomes law, it would ban all plastic bags and automatically offering plastic utensils and condiments as of July 2026 and ban plastic packaging on single-use hotel toiletries as of July 2027.