In every one of my Chinese relatives’ homes when I was growing up in New York, there was a special drawer, cabinet, or sliver of closet dedicated to storing a precious commodity: the plastic bag.

There are also steps you can take so your plastic shopping bag doesn’t end up in the environment, Papp said. For one, if you do use a plastic bag, don’t let it fly away and create litter.

In the four decades since plastic bags became standard ... a graphic repeating sans serif “THANK YOU,” a curling “Thank you for shopping here!” banner. “Everything is so perfect to ...

Recycle Them At the Grocery Store You can bring your plastic bags to the grocery store to shop, as Duckworth pointed out, but if you have so many that you're just looking to dispose of a few for ...

TEO: GOOD MORNING TO YOU ... banning the bags temporarily or issuing multimillion-dollar fines. Since California adopted the nation's first ban on single-use plastic shopping bags in 2014 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Aldi had always had customers buy or bring their own shopping bags ... nearly 4,440 tons of plastic from going into circulation each year. If you purchase a product or register ...

Some shoppers already bring their own bags ... for you, our shoppers,” said Jason Hart, CEO, recently. Hart said Aldi is “the first major U.S. retailer to eliminate plastic shopping bags ...

Single-use plastic bags ... Mariano’s tote bag for every $50 spent shopping at the Naperville location, according to company spokeswoman Amanda Puck. “We thank our customers for partnering ...