Reusable bags have been around for a while, but some manage to turn a simple shopping trip into a surprisingly satisfying ...

You've been diligent about cleaning your hands, your phone, your groceries, even your keys. But what about those handy reusable shopping bags you keep by your front door for grocery runs? Or the giant ...

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According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the US uses more than 380 billion plastic bags and wraps every year. It’s a number staggering enough to trigger an increasing number of single-use ...

Months after concerns about spreading COVID-19 spawned bans on reusable shopping bags, the ubiquitous totes are coming back. Leading the pack are Massachusetts and California, which allowed shoppers ...

Q: With Cuyahoga County’s plastic-bag ban taking effect this year (and already in place at many Giant Eagle stores and other locations), people are starting to use reusable bags. Can reusable bags ...

Larry West is an award-winning environmental journalist and writer. He won the Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. The next time the clerk at your favorite grocery store asks whether ...

While reusable grocery bags are great for the environment, the potential health risks of not washing them can be hazardous. A recent study done by the UA and Loma Linda University revealed that 97 ...

Two experts in disinfecting share the secret of how to clean canvas tote bags, and how to know that they needed to be washed, like, yesterday. I’ve been using the same canvas grocery bag for years.

Plastic-bag bans are currently on the books in about a dozen U.S. cities—a dozen cities that will be seeing fewer bags clustered in rivers, tangled in tree branches, and clogging storm drains. Those ...