Reusable grocery bags are a great choice for both your wallet and the planet, but storing them can be challenging. Maybe you've got a trunk overflowing with crumpled totes or a junk drawer stuffed so ...

In some of the 50 states, plastic bags at grocery stores are a thing of the past. Many stores encourage reusable bags, but some shops have swapped the usual plastic out for paper bags, which are ...

The new California law bans all plastic carryout bags at grocery, pharmacy and convenience store checkouts, including thicker ...

All bags are not created equal when it comes to the environment. And paper might not be as green as you think. Credit...Photo by Tony Cenicola/The New York Times Supported by By Rachel Nuwer With more ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in checkout ...

California voters previously approved a statewide referendum upholding a ban on single-use carryout plastic bags in November ...

Paper or plastic? Wegmans would prefer neither, encouraging customers to instead switch to reusable bags as a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags looms. The Rochester, N.Y.-based supermarket ...

If you’ve been to any retail establishment in Oregon this year, you might have noticed that the bag situation has dramatically shifted. Stores are no longer giving away paper bags willy-nilly. Instead ...

Paper bags would return to grocery stores in New Jersey were he elected governor, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday. Since May 2022, large grocery stores and big box stores in ...

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — The decision by New York State to ban single-use plastic bags from retail stores makes it a good time ...

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