Here come the Holidays – with the additional seasonal shoppers – is your packaging ready? Businesses want to make sure their customers leave with as much merchandise and products as they need or want. Packaging is an important element of retail sales. After all, your customers need to have something to place all of their […]

States are continuing to consider strategies to reduce the number of plastic carry-out bags from grocery stores and other retail outlets. Some states are targeting paper bags as well. On October 1st, California State Supreme Court denied a petition for review by attorney Stephen Joseph. Joseph, who represents the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, was attempting to […]

As summer is in full swing across the county, so are efforts of communities on how to handle the single-use plastic shopping bags. Across California bag bans and taxes continue to pile up following another failed attempt at a state-wide ban in the California state legislature, with Los Angeles drawing the biggest headlines. The second […]

The City of Los Angeles became the largest city in the country and 77th jurisdiction in the State of California to approve an ordinance to phase out the use of plastic grocery bags. If the measure is signed, as expected, by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the phase out of single use plastic grocery bags at large […]

States are continuing to consider strategies to reduce the number of plastic carry-out bags from grocery stores and other retail outlets. Some states are targeting paper bags as well. Thus far in 2013, eight states—Arkansas, California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington—are considering banning single-use plastic bags. In Florida the ban would […]

States are continuing to consider strategies to reduce the number of plastic carry-out bags from grocery stores and other retail outlets. Some states are targeting paper bags as well. No state has yet to enact a statewide ban, fee or tax. However, Hawaii does have a de-facto statewide ban, as all four counties in the […]

The anticipation is that 2013 will see renewed interest for Single-Use Bag legislation around the US. Last year only 14 states considered a total of 56 bills for some type of single use bag legislation. This was slightly down compared to previous years. Since 2008, anywhere from 19 to 21 states each year have legislation […]

2012 is coming to an end. There have been many single-use bag regulations that have been adopted and many more that will be effective this year. States are continuing to consider strategies to reduce the number of single–use bags from grocery stores and other retail outlets. Local governments, especially in California, have been busy crafting […]