Your DIY grocery bag tissue box dispenser will fit at least a dozen bags, depending on the size, so you'll save room where the loosely balled-up bags used to be.

"If it gets too dirty, I just toss it out," Norton, 61, said as he walked out of Jensen's grocery store here with one of his bags full of food. "I have never washed a reusable bag." ...

California’s 2014 bag ban law focused on grocery stores, which can no longer give you one of those thin plastic bags. But they can sell you a heftier sack made of high-density polyethylene, or HDPE.

Right now, stores are barred from using any kind of bag, plastic or paper, if they are not reusable. An amendment would allow grocery delivery services to use paper bags or cardboard boxes for ...