Many grocery stores have collection systems for used plastic bags. The stores claim these bags are getting recycled, but are ...

Think twice before tossing those plastic bags after your next trip to the grocery store. Plastic grocery bags have many more uses than just carrying your fruits and veggies. Repurpose them around the ...

A recent trip to the grocery store was eye-opening, but the revelation was a couple of years too late. I bought meat packaged in shrink wrap. I bought soda and juice in plastic bottles. Cereal is less ...

(AP) – With Los Angeles preparing to become the largest city in the nation to ban plastic grocery bags, a short history of the ubiquitous sack: _ 1977, the plastic grocery bag is introduced to the ...

Giant Eagle is going back to disposable plastic bags after a year of reusable fabric bags, according to a statement from a company spokesperson. Since May 2024, the Pittsburgh-based grocery chain has ...

Soft, stretchy plastics like bubble wrap and bread bags are impossible to avoid and harder still to dispose of.

California companies that produce single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware have until Monday to comply ...

A statewide ban on single-use plastic bags at checkouts in grocery stores took effect Jan. 1. The bill, SB 1053 authored by state Sen. Catherine Blakespear, bolsters existing state law that allowed ...

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