We use a massive five trillion plastic bags every year, and they’re in the top five of all plastic products found in the natural environment. However, paper doesn’t fare any better, with many studies ...

The classic question — paper or plastic? — could soon be phased out as bans on single-use plastic bags sweep the nation, causing paper companies and manufacturers to see a surge in sales. Companies ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X SUGAR NOTCH – With home deliveries driving higher demand for paper bags and more states banning ...

Connecticut is on the right track by not including fees on paper carryout bags. As proposals to ban single-use plastic bags and mandate a fee on paper carryout bags abound around the country, a recent ...

SUGAR NOTCH — You may ask, how do you reinvent the paper bag? For Ian Robson and Cipriano Hinojosa at American Paper Bag, the question is: Why didn’t anyone figure it out ages ago. “It just never ...

Ian Robson, CEO of American Paper Bag in the Hanover Industrial Estates, holds a bag his company manufactured for Gopuff, a Philadelphia-based deliverer of food and other consumer goods that operates ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With the plastic bag ban in effect Sunday, there may actually be a renewed interest in the brown paper bag -- once used for covering school books, as most Gen Xers may recall.