Has your family switched to reusable cloth grocery bags? I keep about half a dozen in the trunk of my car. When I started this practice, I forgot to take the bags into the store. But, after making ...

One of the major issues right now is the use of single-use plastic grocery bags. Local governments are beginning to ban them or make people pay for them. I don’t think banning them is necessary, ...

CLEVELAND — One year after debuting a reusable fabric grocery bag at its Cleveland area stores, Giant Eagle is switching back to plastic. The Pittsburgh-based chain will sunset the fabric option and ...

Were hygiene considerations part of the decision to charge for new grocery bags? I've seen customers put well-used (i.e., dirty) cloth bags on the conveyor belts where I put my food. These bags are ...

Sounds like reusable cloth bags should come with a warning: “The use of reusable cloth grocery bags may cause E. coli, bubonic plague or Rocky Mountain tick fever. In some rare cases, the use of cloth ...

After a norovirus outbreak hit an Oregon soccer team, leaving seven girls sick with vomiting and diarrhea, researchers determined the culprit was a reusable grocery bag. They pieced together how the ...

Unfortunately, throwing away those convenient disposable plastic bags carries grave consequences. They never break down and eventually contaminate the world’s waterways and oceans. Per The World ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SACRAMENTO — A proposal to ban single-use ...

I am responding to the news article in the April 26 issue of the Mountain Xpress titled “Singled Out: Asheville Considers Ban on Single-use Plastic Bags.” One way to get rid of all the plastic bags ...

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The days of hearing "paper or plastic" at retail stores around the country might be numbered. Shoppers at popular discount grocery chain Aldi will no longer be offered plastic bags at the checkout ...