Discover five food-saving benefits of paper bags you should know, from reducing waste to preserving freshness, plus how they ...

When you’re left with a collection of paper bags after going to the grocery store, you may be tempted to just toss them into the recycling bin. But saving them can make your life a whole lot ...

If you’ve wondered if it’s time for you to be more aware of climate change, sustainability, and your consumption levels, it ...

I live in California, which recently passed a law that lets supermarkets charge 10 cents or more for each paper grocery bag. (The law is now on hold, awaiting a referendum next year.) Though the ...

Large grocery stores, defined as anything over 2,500 square feet, are not allowed to give customers paper bags, either for free or for a nominal charge. The average grocery store is about 38,000 ...

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 ...

The paper bag sold to those who shop at the Safeway on Rainier and Charleston.... And this is the paper bag sold at the Safeway on 15th and John...The former bag is in a grocery store that serves ...

But it’s not quite as simple as all paper bags being banned. While paper bags are banned in the stores shoppers might want them the most — mostly grocery stores — they’re still allowed in ...

Turns out, they’d been stockpiling grocery bags, too — tons! One friend even used good-looking versions to bring flowers and wine to dinner parties. They went right home and recycled their stock.

Specifically, Gordon proposes a 5-cent fee on plastic and paper grocery bags to encourage Minneapolis shoppers to bring their own bags or at least use fewer store-provided bags.