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… ...

Last week Port Townsend Paper Corp. announced it was getting out of the paper bag business by closing operations in its home town and in Portland, a move that will mean layoffs for 105 (the ...

Thus, a bag fee will probably reduce the use of plastic and paper bags in the stores by shifting consumers towards reusable grocery bags, but then increase sales of plastic trash bags.

During Earth Week, I repeated the unfortunate fact that the answer to the grocery-store question of "Paper or plastic?" appears to be "Neither." Plastic bags live forever in landfills, and ...

Although reusable bags are used for grocery shopping, students find a new purpose for them as book bags and lunch bags because of their convenience and space. Photo credit by Neelofer Lodhy / ...

Christina Carmichael of Wyckoff forgot her bags and just loaded her groceries loose into the back of her SUV. Stew LeonardÕs on the first day of plastic and paper grocery bag ban, in Paramus, N.J ...

Under the city’s Reusable Bag Ordinance, which went into effect a little more than a year ago, retailers are supposed to charge 10 cents only for paper bags the size of a “typical grocery ...