Asda: "If your Bag for Life breaks or gets damaged, we will happily replace it free of charge." Sainsbury's: "We offer reusable Bags for Life, made from 100 per cent recycled content.

Break the single-use habit. Reusable bags do make a difference. Since the 5p charge started in 2015, plastic bag use dropped by 97%, saving over 7 billion bags a year. Use them properly.

Maybe you have been annoyed by the extra charge to get a plastic shopping bag, but a new study shows the policies actually help clean up shorelines.

A version of this article appears in print on April 1, 2025, Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Paper Bags, Plastic Bags or Totes: What’s Best for Groceries?.

Because of the efforts a group of local volunteers partnering with St. Dominic's Hospital, plastic grocery, shopping and dry cleaning bags are being given a new life, repurposed into weatherproof ...

In the EU, there have been many directives aimed at reducing the consumption of plastic bags and marine littering. Environmentally conscious choices have encouraged supermarkets to be less reliant on ...