Massachusetts Stop & Shop customers in most Bay State communities will no longer pay for paper bags beginning on Wednesday, October 16.

New legislation introduced this past week would ban all plastic bags. Under the “Bring Your Own Bag” bill, each paper bag ...

Montgomery County leaders are considering a bill that would ban plastic carryout bags and place a 10-cent fee on paper bags.

But because of a loophole in its initial ban that allowed grocers to charge for thicker plastic bags, California still dumped 231,072 tons of plastic grocery and merchandise bags in landfills in ...

Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had ...

Paper or plastic" will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had ...

"However, the truth is almost none of those bags are reused or recycled, and they end up in landfills or polluting the environment." Before, grocery stores would offer patrons plastic or paper bags.

A California mom has been charged with murder 30 years after her newborn boy was found dead in a paper bag at a dumpsite, according to the officials. Pamela Ferreyra, 60, was arrested Thursday ...

MIKE. GOOD MORNING. YEAH. AND GOOD MORNING. IF YOU’RE LIKE ME, YOU WENT TO THE GROCERY SHOPPING THIS WEEKEND. AND WHEN YOU GOT TO THE CHECKOUT, YOU WERE ASKED PAPER OR PLASTIC? WELL, THAT’S A ...

Paper or plastic” will no longer be a choice at grocery store checkout lines in California under a new law signed Sunday by Gov. Gavin Newsom that bans all plastic shopping bags. California had ...