Above, a shopping bag sits at a checkout inside a Grocery Outlet in San Francisco in 2019. (David Paul Morris / Bloomberg via Getty Images) By Karen Garcia. Staff Writer Follow.

“Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia grocery stores could be forced to do away with plastic shopping bags. House Bill 1662, introduced by Del. Michael Jones (D-Chesterfield), would make it illegal ...

In 2021, Californians discarded 5.89 tons of plastic bags per 1,000 people, compared with 4.08 tons of plastic bags per 1,000 people in 2014, according to an analysis by CalPIRG.