As an avid home cook, I try to pull out all the stops when I have people over. But the recipe that gets the most remarks (and the most copycats!) is so easy it’s hardly a recipe at all: paper ...

When you’re left with a collection of paper bags after going to the grocery store, you may be tempted to just toss them into the recycling bin. But saving them can make your life a whole lot easier.

“From an ecological standpoint, a lot more energy and natural resources go into making paper bags,” JoAnn Gemenden, the executive director of New Jersey Clean Communities Council, told NJ ...

Volunteers are also urging citizens to make and share these bags with vendors ... as much as possible and recycle them once they tear. Paper comes from trees—a precious resource that must ...

compared to making plastic bags, making paper bags takes 3.4 times as much energy, produces five times as much solid waste, emits twice as much greenhouse gases, and uses 17 times more water.

Fairfax County’s Office of Environmental and Energy Coordination (OEEC) shares that when compared to the production of paper bags, “Making the switch to a reusable bag saves about 53MW of ...

“We had proposed a five-year exemption for paper bags and cardboard boxes ... in a faster period of time, so don’t make it too long,” state Sen. Bob Smith, D-Middlesex, who co-sponsored ...