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 ...

Starting January 11, 2026, Washington restaurants and retailers will raise their minimum cost to 12 cents per bag from the ...

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 ...

Shoppers at Whole Foods Market who bring their own bags will no longer receive a credit towards their bill, a spokesperson confirmed to NBC Chicago, in a major change to the grocery store's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As summer begins to fade and signs of fall loom nearer, we find ourselves taking that one last trip, whether it is away to the beach, off to college or just to the store for school supplies (and maybe ...