Our tip: Save your old tissue boxes and use them as plastic bag dispensers. While we may know the advantages of reusable shopping bags, plastic grocery or retailer bags are a simple reality for ...

I know. We’ve talked a lot about shopping bags recently. But, before we move on, my editor wanted to know if he could compost his paper shopping bags. He wondered if that would be a reason to ...

Stores usually pay less than a penny per plastic shopping bag, and 3 to 4 cents per paper shopping bag. According to the Grocery Industry Committee on Solid Waste, less than 1 percent of shoppers ...

PROVIDENCE -- When Katrina Gamble goes grocery shopping ... almost 100 billion plastic bags each year and only 1% to 3% are recycled. Environmentalists warn paper is not much better than plastic ...

WASHINGTON — The decision by New York State to ban single-use plastic bags from retail stores makes it a good time to revisit everyone’s favorite environmental quandary: paper or plastic?

What are we to do about the billions of plastic shopping bags that Americans use ... companies that make up the nation's wholesale paper bag and disposable plastic product sector brought ...

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 ...

The next time the clerk at your favorite grocery store asks whether you prefer “paper or plastic” for ... is high-quality reusable shopping bags made of materials that don’t harm the ...

Paper bags use up more energy to produce than plastic bags, industry experts have said, and they also cost stores more money to stock. “We were supportive of banning single use shopping bags ...

“$15 for a paper bag??? That’s a hard no from me,” the social media user said. “@Coles you have no shame.” Coles announced in May that it will stop selling soft-plastic shopping bags in ...