NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Officials in New Jersey are considering bringing back paper bags just months after a single-use bag ban took effect. Right now, stores are barred from using any kind of bag, ...

New Jersey’s upcoming single-use plastic bag ban law goes further than any other state by including paper bags. But it’s not quite as simple as all paper bags being banned. While paper bags are banned ...

Single-use plastic items are a substantial contributor to litter across Canada, but compostable alternatives can follow a ...

The battle of the bags rages inside the Jewel Food Store at 5516 N. Clark St. But at the front, there`s no gunfire, no explosions. Only bag boy Richard Machado and his eight colleagues whipping ...

Five months into New Jersey’s ban on plastic — and in grocery stores, paper — bags, it’s been, well, a mixed bag of results. Customers are still forgetting their bags at home. Some shoppers are even ...

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Aspen’s 20-cent surcharge on paper grocery bags is not a tax and therefore is not subject to the state’s Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The Colorado Supreme ...