When you lug that 50-pound sack of dog food onto your shoulder, you get a good idea of how very strong those bags are. Some ...

When preparing frozen food, many of us grab plastic bags, stuffing our freezer's drawers full of goodies. It seems like the ...

They appeared in U.S. grocery stores only in 1979, edging out paper bags because ... “When a plastic bag escapes into the environment, animals can see it as a food source and ingest it.

food marts and liquor stores could use only reusable plastic bags made with recycled content or recycled paper bags, according to CalRecycle. The new bill will change the definition of a ...

In New Jersey, 2022’s ban on single-use plastic and paper bags has meant grocery ... Enck said she donated excess reusable bags to a food pantry or food bank, or, in the case of cotton totes ...

Thirteen states across the country have enacted bans on "single-use" plastic bags ... claim that these bags are difficult to recycle, contaminate oceans and therefore our food source, and can ...

As compared to plastic bags, paper bags also require significantly ... since they spend a larger percentage of their monthly income on food. That said, it doesn’t have to hit these communities ...

Walmart will eliminate single-use paper and plastic carryout bags at the register from stores in New York, Connecticut and Colorado this month. The company previously stopped giving out single-use ...

When the ban on thin, single-use plastic bags went into effect, shoppers were left with a choice between paper bags or heavier, multiuse plastic bags. But many people apparently didn’t reuse ...

Regardless, the brown paper bag is recyclable as well ... report businesses in violation of the City’s Plastic Bag Ban and Disposable Food Ware Ordinance. Email potential violations at ...