SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A coalition of plastic film recyclers and reusable bag manufacturers today launched the Responsible Recycling Alliance (RRA), a coalition organized to help ...

The Progressive Bag Affiliates has launched an initiative to promote bag recycling throughout the nation. Several of the country's biggest bag manufacturers will begin printing a message on their bags ...

In response to a grassroots legislative movement to phase out non-biodegradable plastic shopping bags, manufacturers are developing bags that will break down from prolonged exposure to oxygen or water ...

Plastic bag manufacturers filed a second ballot measure on Friday in California's fight over a statewide plastic bag ban.The American Progressive Bag Alliance, which represents bag manufacturers, ...

Repeat Performance:Pete Grande at Command Packaging’s facility in Vernon. While most plastic bag manufacturers in California and around the nation are pouring millions of dollars into defeating a ban ...

Book cover for Trent A. Romer’s “Finding Sustainability: The Personal and Professional Journey of a Plastic Bag Manufacturer.” The cover photo of the June 2018 National Geographic clearly showed the ...

Laura Ledbetter scooped a handful of resin pellets and held out her palm for inspection. A faint smell of melting plastic hung in the air as workers rode past her on forklifts carrying rolls of white ...

ALBANY — A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags "would mean the end of our business" if it goes into effect March 1 as written, the owner of a Melville plastic bag manufacturer told state ...

SACRAMENTO, CA -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed legislation imposing the nation's first statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at grocery and convenience stores, driven to action by a buildup ...

And under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, the thicker plastic bags were required to be phased out anyway at all ...