ASPEN – Recently, Summer Pennetta and Ramsay Hill’s third-grade students at Aspen Country Day School weighed in their opinions on the plastic-bag issue. Here’s a sampling: My opinion is that everyone ...

We are four students from Aspen High School, freshmen and sophomores, who have become concerned with Aspen’s plastic and paper bag usage. In the United States 40 billion grocery bags are used each ...

ASPEN – Grocery shoppers in Aspen and Carbondale are getting free reusable bags as a ban on plastic shopping bags go into effect. The bans going into effect on Tuesday require shoppers to bring their ...

ASPEN, Colorado ” Aspen, Colorado officials are moving forward with plans to charge a fee to consumers who use paper and plastic bags at grocery stores. The Aspen City Council on Tuesday signed off on ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The city of Aspen has unveiled a proposed ordinance that seeks to charge grocery-store customers 20 cents for each plastic or paper bag used in sacking their ...

The city of Aspen’s five-year-old policy banning plastic bags at the grocery store while requiring a 20-cent fee for paper has resulted in 85 percent of Aspen grocery shoppers using something other ...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Aspen's 20-cent charge for paper bags at grocery stores is a fee, not a tax, and can remain in place, a state judge ruled Monday. Aspen implemented the fee when it banned plastic ...

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Aspen City Council members have changed their minds and are considering a ban on plastic bags instead of charging a fee. The council was scheduled to vote Monday on a 20-cent fee ...