This summer the Anne Arundel Group of the Sierra Club conducted a survey of more than 3,000 shoppers at 27 grocery stores and the results were amazing! Seventy-two percent of shoppers were using ...

RIVIERA BEACH – Anne Arundel County's "Bring Your Own Bag Plastic Reduction Act" went into effect Monday. Shoppers at Anne Arundel County retailers will no longer be offered "single-use" plastic bags.

For the 35 years he’s owned Monaghan’s Pub in Woodlawn, Jack Milani has always offered free paper bags to his customers after a sale. But starting Wednesday, when Baltimore County’s Bring Your Own Bag ...

Starting November 1st, many retailers throughout Baltimore County will not be allowed to distribute single-use plastic bags. The "Bring Your Own Bag" law attempts to reduce plastic bags' impacts on ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBFF) — Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, businesses in Anne Arundel County will no longer provide plastic bags to customers, as the Bring Your Own Bag Plastic Reduction Act (Bill 19-23) takes ...

SOUTH EUCLID, Ohio -- The city’s nonprofit community development corporation One South Euclid (OSE) has announced two initiatives it is undertaking during this holiday season: the BYOBags (Bring Your ...

Gone are the days of free plastic bags. Now it’s taxed paper bags, or BYOB — Bring Your own Bag. That’s also the name of a new Montgomery County Council proposal with a goal to ban single-use plastic ...

Over the past year, I've noticed that more and more of my neighbors are bringing their own bags when they shop. I've seen lots of green bags with store logos, but I've also noticed canvas bags, ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A single-use plastic bag ban officially went into effect on January 1 in Lancaster Township, Lancaster County forcing residents and business owners in the area to change ...

FOLLOW IT. I SPOKE TO SEVERAL PEOPLE HERE AT THE PARKWAY CROSSING SHOPPING CENTER, AND FOR THE MOST PART, THEY’RE ADJUSTING TO THE NEW PLASTIC BAG BAN. THEY KNOW TO BRING THEIR OWN BAGS TO THE GROCERY ...

Rohan Mattu is a digital news producer at CBS Baltimore. Rohan graduated from Towson University in 2020 with a degree in journalism and previously wrote for WDVM-TV in Hagerstown. He maintains CBS ...