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7 Creative Uses For Plastic Grocery Bags
You might be good at saving plastic grocery bags (raise your hand if you have a pile taking up real estate under the kitchen ...
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The Clever Plastic Bag Trick We Wish We’d Known About Sooner
W e all have that one cabinet, drawer or entire corner of the pantry stuffed to the brim with plastic grocery bags. We keep ...
Elgin council to consider ordinance to ban retailers from using plastic bags
The Elgin City Council has directed staff to draft an ordinance banning the use of single-use bags by all retailers other ...
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Local grocery chains hail impact of bag effort
New York State implemented its Bag Waste Reduction Act, which prohibited retailers from providing single-use plastic carryout bags. Five years later, a pair of grocery ...
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SpartanNash Converts Grocery Bags Into Accessibility Ramps for Veterans
Last year, in its first partnership of this kind, SpartanNash built accessibility ramps for five veterans in west Michigan.
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Shoppers reflect on the 5th year of New York’s plastic bag ban
JOHNSON CITY, N.Y. (WBNG) -- “Because plastic is destroying our entire planet,” said a grocery store shopper, Sue Thomas.
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Five years later, New Yorkers adapt to state's plastic bag ban
New York state’s 2020 ban on plastic bags was an effort to address the environmental impacts of plastic waste. Before the ban ...
H-E-B gives away free reusable bags today across Texas for Earth Day.
Texas based grocer is giving away free reusable bags today, Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at stores across the state.
Poilievre promises to scrap single-use plastics ban and bring back the plastic straw
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to scrap the federal government’s ban on single use plastics and bring back ...