The legislation passed Thursday by a vote of 10-5 and now heads to Mayor Cherelle Parker's desk. The mayor has not indicated ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA — Grocery shoppers can expect to fork over a few more pennies at the checkout counter if the governor signs a bipartisan bill that bans plastic grocery bags and adds an 8-cent fee on paper ...

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Easy Answer: Neither. Bring your own. But if you forget, you may want to choose the type of bag you’re most likely to reuse. Nope. Turns out both are pretty bad for the environment. I got in touch ...

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 ...