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

The PaperJohn is a genius shopping bag that comes with straps. But how sustainable it is depends on how it’s used. It’s a paper grocery bag. No, it’s a backpack. Yes, it’s the PaperJohn, a ...

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.

The paper bag sold to those who shop at the Safeway on Rainier and Charleston.... And this is the paper bag sold at the Safeway on 15th and John...The former bag is in a grocery store that serves ...

Roughly 10 years after California tried and failed to ban plastic bags at grocery stores, state lawmakers have passed a law that they say will forever end the choice of “paper or plastic” in ...

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 ...

I live in California, which recently passed a law that lets supermarkets charge 10 cents or more for each paper grocery bag. (The law is now on hold, awaiting a referendum next year.) Though the ...

The humble brown paper bag, which you might use to carry lunch or lug groceries, is a remarkable contrivance. It can stand upright by itself. You don’t need an extra hand to hold it open while ...

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.

But it’s not quite as simple as all paper bags being banned. While paper bags are banned in the stores shoppers might want them the most — mostly grocery stores — they’re still allowed in ...