which makes custom reusable grocery and shopping bags. The average plastic bag is used for 12 minutes, and shoppers collectively use about 500 billion single-use bags each year, which averages out ...

Freedonia Custom Research put together the “market assessment” of the plastic-bag ban. It found that New Jersey’s consumption of plastic for bags increased three-fold after the ban.

“Like all of our projects at Freedonia Custom Research ... Longport became the first town in New Jersey to ban plastic and paper bags for carry-out at its businesses. New Jersey’s law went ...

That finding is outlined in a new report from the market research group Freedonia Custom Research, which shows the ban on plastic bags could be harming the environment more than helping it.

The Plastic Bag Store, conceived by artist Robin Frohardt, is disguised as a typical grocery store, but with shelves stocked with items made entirely of single-use plastic salvaged from streets ...

The supermarket chain Morrisons is raising the price of its reusable plastic bags from 10p to 15p as a trial and introducing a 20p paper version. The paper bags will be available in eight stores ...

The days of picking up your groceries in those thin plastic bags and struggling to get them all into your house are about to be over. Starting May 4, single-use plastic bags will be banned in all ...

Maryland’s Montgomery County joins Prince George’s, Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties in adopting a bill that imposes a county-wide ban on nearly all plastic bags at retailers. The “Bring ...