Purchasing 44 reusable bags that one time would add $15.40 to ... As some areas have adopted "green" laws that look to curb plastic and paper waste, businesses might still offer those options ...

Wake Forest ends loose leaf collection, requires compostable yard waste bags or reusable containers from March 17.

Authors of a new plastic waste report, said after the plastic reduction law, roughly 16.5 billion single-use plastic bags and 110 million single-use paper bags were kept out of the waste stream ...