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 ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SAN FRANCISCO – Concluding his statewide investigation into plastic bag producers and whether the plastic bags they have sold ...

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 ...

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 ...

In California, prosecutors are launching a new front in the fight against deceptive recycling claims. The Golden State’s Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it had sent letters to seven top ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced settlements totaling $3.35 million with three major plastic ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Is that grocery store plastic bag actually recyclable? California Attorney General Rob Bonta is now demanding manufacturers of plastic bags prove that it is … or else. AG Bonta ...

Reusable plastic bags and unrecyclable film packaging from Southern California stores and retailers are seen in Laguna Niguel. Jan Dell/Handout via REUTERS California’s attorney general on Wednesday ...

The law faced considerable headwinds, including a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort from plastic bag manufacturers. That lobbying set efforts back two years by forcing a referendum, but voters ...