Were hygiene considerations part of the decision to charge for new grocery bags? I've seen customers put well-used (i.e., dirty) cloth bags on the conveyor belts where I put my food. These bags are ...

One of the major issues right now is the use of single-use plastic grocery bags. Local governments are beginning to ban them or make people pay for them. I don’t think banning them is necessary, ...

I've noticed all the plastic and paper bags being taken out in carts at the grocery store. What a waste. Instead of polluting our oceans further with plastic and causing more trees to be cut down for ...

Many people looking to live a more sustainable lifestyle have switched to reusable grocery bags. Rather than taking home single-use plastics and sending them to a landfill every time they buy food, ...

The plastic-industry funded study that found cloth grocery bags may be a biohazard needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Ok, it’s probably worth washing reusible shopping bags once in a while. My ...

After a norovirus outbreak hit an Oregon soccer team, leaving seven girls sick with vomiting and diarrhea, researchers determined the culprit was a reusable grocery bag. They pieced together how the ...

Unfortunately, throwing away those convenient disposable plastic bags carries grave consequences. They never break down and eventually contaminate the world’s waterways and oceans. Per The World ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. That's when I came across Anne-Marie Bonneau's tutorial on ...

I just read the letter from the gentleman who is worried about contamination from reusable grocery bags. I would think there is a greater problem of contamination from the shoes of the children whose ...

I applaud The Ocean Cleanup’s effort in cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of plastic trash twice the size of Texas ("Corraling plastic," Associated Press article, Sunday’s ...