The battle of the bags rages inside the Jewel Food Store at 5516 N. Clark St. But at the front, there`s no gunfire, no explosions. Only bag boy Richard Machado and his eight colleagues whipping gro… ...

Paper bags are biodegradable. ... Padilla is the front-runner for secretary of state in the ... “Plastic grocery bags amount to only 0.6% of the litter stream,” contends company general ...

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.

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

SEATTLE (AP) - Leaders of this famously green city last year passed the nation's first grocery bag fee, and other cities around the nation quickly followed. But the plastics industry has been ...

Paper grocery bags will continue to be available, but 5 cents will be charged for each bag. Money collected from sales of paper bags will be donated to the Food Bank of the Southern Tier.