plastic bags

We are all in a sort of 'September 12' mode when it comes to pathogen's vigilance. The canvas or hemp bags are now not wanted in public.

According to the Sierra Club, 134 Massachusetts communities have already instituted such bans.

Let consumers decide the fate of plastic shopping bags.

Stores and restaurants in Massachusetts would be barred from giving customers single-use plastic bags under a bill that cleared a legislative committee on Thursday and would align state law with local policies adopted from Northampton to Nantucket.

The Massachusetts Senate has overwhelming endorsed a budget rider banning single-use plastic bags at many supermarkets and stores in the Bay State.  The vote was 29-9. The State House News Service says the proposal would ban the use of plastic bags at stores with gross square footage of 3,000 or more or chains with three or more locations.  B...

They're not good for the environment. Ducks die eating them. The incredible, uneatable plastic shopping bag is under the legislative microscope. There's a bill waiting for a positive vote that would make us pay 10 cents per bag, paper or plastic, at the supermarket...

Advocates say a vote this week to ban plastic shopping bags in Brookline could give them enough energy to spread the ban statewide.

A day after banning Styrofoam food containers, Brookline voted yesterday to prohibit supermarkets and other retailers from using disposable plastic checkout bags.