Riley War bags groceries at The Market at Park City in Park City on May 16, 2017. The state of Colorado will impose a 10-cent charge to use plastic or paper bags at stores beginning in 2023.

I always take my reusable bags to the grocery store. ... In 11% of transactions, a customer purchased one of the new thicker plastic reusable bags; 3% purchased a recycled paper bag.

Purchasing 44 reusable bags that one time would add $15.40 to his grocery bill. In comparison, he said, his local Seattle-area Safeway charges 8 cents for a single-use bag — totaling about $3.50 ...

Paper bags would return to grocery stores in New Jersey were he elected governor, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday. Since May 2022, large grocery stores and big box ...

Seattle became on Monday one of the first major American cities to discourage the use of paper and plastic shopping bags by requiring grocery, drug and convenience stores to charge 20 cents per bag.

“With major grocery stores covered under the law, New Jersey’s food retailers are eliminating up to 13.7 million single-use paper bags per month,” Doherty said.