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HB 2509 was enacted during the 2019 legislative session. The bill prohibits restaurants and retail establishments, including grocery stores, from using single use plastic bags and requires retail establishments to charge a minimum of five cents for paper bags and reusable bags.
- Single-Use Bag Ban
By Sept. 15, 2024, grocers must provide DEQ with information...
- Single-Use Bag Ban
By Sept. 15, 2024, grocers must provide DEQ with information on collection of bag fees and customers’ usage of recycled paper, reusable fabric and reusable plastic checkout bags. DEQ must submit a report about this information to the legislature by Sept. 15, 2025.
By Sept. 15, 2024, retail stores that primarily sell groceries must provide the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) with information on: the collection of bag fees, and (1) (2) customer usage of recycled paper, reusable plastic, and reusable fabric bags.
Oregon can reduce the amounts of single-use bags that are used and thrown out, while addressing a significant problem for Oregon’s recycling programs: plastic bags.
The new law repeals ORS 459A.695, which required retail stores providing plastic checkout bags to offer paper bags as an alternative. Why is this Initiative important? By encouraging the switch to reusable or recycled paper bags, Oregon can reduce the amounts of single-use bags that are used and thrown out, while addressing a significant ...
10 maj 2023 · State lawmakers passed a plastic bag ban that went into effect Jan. 1, 2020, prohibiting stores and restaurants from providing single-use plastic bags and instead offering paper bags or thicker, reusable plastic bags at a cost of at least 5 cents per bag to customers.
7 paź 2020 · In 2019, the Oregon Legislature passed the “Sustainable Shopping Initiative,” which bans the sale of single-use plastic grocery bags and requires retailers to charge at least five-cents for 40% post-consumer recycled paper and reusable bags. This law went into effect January 1, 2020.
