A woman puts ginger in plastic bags while shopping. | David Paul Morris/Getty Images By Samantha Maldonado , Bruce Ritchie and Debra Kahn 01/20/2020 08:11 AM EST TRENTON, N.J.

Black Friday is coming and with it, you may end up with more shopping bags than usual. And depending on where you live, where you shop, and how prepared you are in advance, there’s possibly to ...

Crochet group transforms plastic bags into mats for the homeless 01:46 But like it or not, plastic shopping bags are a big business in the U.S., and expected to remain that way.

“That’s really the pollutant; that is what we mostly see,” McKoy, 30, said. Plastic bottles and ubiquitous black plastic shopping bags like the one Doctor was carrying — they are known ...

The spread of coronavirus is threatening to resurrect environmentally destructive single-use plastic bags, with a raft of states and cities putting previously approved bans on hold and some even ...

A roundup of the best reusable shopping bags we’ve written about on the Strategist, ... New York’s plastic-bag ban starts on March 1, ... resident cool guy and columnist Chris Black, ...

A plastic bag submerged in soil for three years could still hold a full load of shopping. Lloyd Russell, University of ... placed in a black box in a lab.

Plastic bags have a certain nostalgia in some Asian-American communities, both for their designs and as symbols of the thriftiness of reuse. As the bags are now being phased out due to ...