If you have an excess of paper bags from the grocery store, consider trying one or all of these five genius uses for paper ...

In some stores, the charge for paper bags or thicker, reusable plastic bags varies, up to 25 cents. That’s because dozens of cities and counties passed their own local ordinances.

These days, grabbing your reusable bags might be as much a part of your shopping routine as writing a grocery list, but which ...

New Jersey’s upcoming single-use plastic bag ban law goes further than any other state by including paper bags.. But it’s not quite as simple as all paper bags being banned. While paper bags ...

But paper bags are only banned in grocery stores, and are generally allowed in other types of businesses. States with similar plastic bag bans do not include paper bags in what’s prohibited.

GET your plastic grocery bags while you can. By Earth Day, that is, Tuesday, the national chain Whole Foods Market will no longer offer shoppers plastic bags – leaving consumers who don&#8217… ...

New Jersey’s law bars grocery stores in the state from using any kind of single-use bags, be it paper or plastic. In-person shoppers can bring their own bags or buy reusable ones there.

Instacart orders will be packed in paper bags, and customers will not be charged the 5-cent-per-bag fee, a Wegmans spokespersons said. Reusable bags is one way to go ...

Some bad ideas never die. Rebuffed in their efforts to stick a 10-cent tax (“fee”) on plastic and paper bags at city stores, City Council progressives are looking at . . . a 5-cent fee.

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.

Julie Miro Wenger is executive director of the Delaware Food Industry Council. With the recent passage of a bill banning single-use plastic bags and the filing of another bill to ban paper grocery ...