Two thousand plastic bags weigh 30 pounds, 2,000 paper bags weigh 280 pounds. A packed standard-sized paper bag can hold up to 14 items, an average plastic bag often holds 5-10 items.

Paper bags, after all, require considerably more energy and resources to produce than plastic ones. The manufacture of an uncomposted paper bag generates nearly 40 percent more greenhouse gas ...

Re “Paper Bags or Plastic Bags? New Proposals Like Neither” (news article, Bay Area edition, May 21): The record needs to be set straight on paper bags. When it comes to choosing a grocery bag ...

Unfortunately, there’s not a simple answer on whether paper or plastic bags are better for the environment. They both have downsides, but there are a few broad lessons to keep in mind when you ...

Paper or plastic? Wegmans would prefer neither, encouraging customers to instead switch to reusable bags as a statewide ban on single-use plastic bags looms. The Rochester, N.Y.-based supermarket ...