Bagitan Packaging boasts its position in the top three leading and largest paper bag manufacturers of China, owing most of its success to the quality and cost-efficiency of its products following 20 ...

It's an age old question, when it comes time to check out when grocery shopping: paper bag or plastic bag? It seems like it should be an easy choice, but there's an incredible number of details and ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Paper bags have been part of trade and commerce for more than centuries. Traditionally cloth and jute bags were used to pack goods in ...

As the world searches for ways to reduce the use of plastics such as single-use plastic bags, a novel study demonstrates a process to make paper bags stronger -- especially when they get wet -- to ...

Scientists have modeled the cradle-to-grave environmental impact of using different types of shopping bags and report that in cities like Singapore, single-use plastic bags (made from high-density ...

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 ...

Want climate news in your inbox? Sign up here for Climate Fwd:, our email newsletter. WASHINGTON — The decision by New York State to ban single-use plastic bags from retail stores makes it a good time ...

The new paper bags will initially be available in 53 of 2,485 stores, and Boots has pledged that all of them will use paper by early 2020 Boots has been accused of hypocrisy for making a high-profile ...

In the midst of the holidays, New Jerseyans are approaching a sustainable milestone this December: seven months into the state’s single-use plastic bag ban. Since May 4, the law has banned single-use ...

When New Jersey enacted its wide-ranging plastic bag ban six months ago, it also banned all paper bags from supermarkets and big box stores. The law is estimated to have eliminated 3 billion plastic ...