A cotton bag needs to be used between 50 and 150 times to have a lower climate change impact than a single-use plastic bag, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s 2020 report on ...

Those reusable bags, the report notes, contain 15-20 times the amount of plastic that’s in the traditional single-use shopping bags that are now banned in New Jersey.

Should you wash your reusable bags? Absolutely. With the NJ bag ban taking effect, they're about to get a lot of use. Here's how to clean them.

A cotton bag needs to be used between 50 and 150 times to have a lower climate change impact than a single-use plastic bag, according to the United Nations Environment Programme’s 2020 report on ...

A ban on single-use plastic and paper bags in grocery stores had an unintended effect: Delivery services switched to heavy, reusable sacks — lots of them. By Clare Toeniskoetter Nicole ...

When plastic bags end up in our waterways and landfills, it can take 20 years or more for them to break down. This initiative encourages people to go plastic-free by offering free reusable bags.