Paper grocery bags will continue to be available, but 5 cents will be charged for each bag. ... Trash bags, food storage bags and other plastic bags sold in bulk are also not covered by the ban.

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 ...

Wegmans will no longer provide single-use plastic bags at its New York state stores and will charge 5 cents per paper grocery bag. Wegmans will still pack a very limited number of items in plastic ...

Banning plastic grocery bags does not reduce disposal and recycling costs, a study of several U.S. cities shows. Consumers choose plastic bags far more often than paper or reusable bags to carry their ...

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… ...

Paper bags tend to require more energy to produce than plastic ones. A 2011 study by Britain’s Environment Agency, for example, concluded that you’d have to reuse a paper bag three times to ...