And under a law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last year, the thicker plastic bags were required to be phased out anyway at all ...

Pauline Hanson has lost her cool after buying a 25c item at an Aussie supermarket, and later demanding the return of a banned ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y.(WHEC)— Plastic bags are out. Those have been banned statewide for many months now. We’re left with reusable bags, and you pay a one-time charge for those. We also have paper bags, ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Price Chopper, Tops and Wegmans will all soon start charging a fee for paper bags in their stores. The chains are trying to encourage customers to switch to reusable bags as New ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Starting this year, Oregonians must now pay at least five cents for a paper bag at all retail stores. Some viewers wanted to know: Who gets that extra nickel? The answer: retailers.

New Jersey grocery deliveries will not be arriving in paper bags. At least not for some months. Starting last May, New Jersey’s single-use bag ban — considered likely the strictest in the nation — has ...

If you tend to forget to take reusable shopping bags with you to Wegmans, it's time to start flexing that memory muscle. As of Monday, Wegmans will no longer pack groceries in single-use plastic bags ...

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 ...

A bill that would ban stores and restaurants in Massachusetts from giving customers single-use plastic bags cleared the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Feb. 2, 2018. The ...

According to WPI, Morgan defended his copyright against Goodall and won in court, earning him “his first patent as principal ...

New York City will impose a 5-cent fee for paper bags starting next March, part of an effort to reduce the city's solid waste. The nickle fee will accompany New York state's ban on plastic bags, and ...