Teresa Peschel of Hershey was in the Author Spotlight to share “Sew Cloth Grocery Bags: Make Your Own in Quantity For Yourself, For Gifts, and For Sale.” The book teaches home sewists how to make ...

Has your family switched to reusable cloth grocery bags? I keep about half a dozen in the trunk of my car. When I started this practice, I forgot to take the bags into the store. But, after making ...

Were hygiene considerations part of the decision to charge for new grocery bags? I've seen customers put well-used (i.e., dirty) cloth bags on the conveyor belts where I put my food. These bags are ...

After a norovirus outbreak hit an Oregon soccer team, leaving seven girls sick with vomiting and diarrhea, researchers determined the culprit was a reusable grocery bag. They pieced together how the ...

The plastic-industry funded study that found cloth grocery bags may be a biohazard needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Ok, it’s probably worth washing reusible shopping bags once in a while. My ...

Many people looking to live a more sustainable lifestyle have switched to reusable grocery bags. Rather than taking home single-use plastics and sending them to a landfill every time they buy food, ...

I just read the letter from the gentleman who is worried about contamination from reusable grocery bags. I would think there is a greater problem of contamination from the shoes of the children whose ...

I applaud The Ocean Cleanup’s effort in cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — an island of plastic trash twice the size of Texas ("Corraling plastic," Associated Press article, Sunday’s ...