Living with less plastic in the United States

California banned single-use plastic carryout bags at large retailers with SB 270, signed in 2014 and upheld by voters in a 2016 referendum - the first statewide ban of its kind in the United States. Nearly a decade later, the state's own waste data showed something awkward: the amount of …

The United States has no national deposit on drink containers and no federal law requiring one. What it has instead is a patchwork: ten states - Oregon, Vermont, Maine, Michigan, Iowa, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, California and Hawaii - run their own container deposit programs, each with its own deposit …