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It's a bag. Made out of a suit. How cool is that?
San Francisco has approved a ban on plastic grocery bags in supermarkets. Well, actually you'll still be able to get plastic bags, just a more...
Per our videographic discussion of the problems with plastic (and paper) bags, here are some solutions for those who can't make the switch to...
Good news for literalists: Now Irish Americans (and anyone else who wants in) can always have a part of the Motherland with them.
Plastic bags are going out of style pretty fast.Los Angeles has just joined San Francisco, Israel, Melbourne, China, and most of the African...
Treehugger discovers some really cool bags made from recycled rubber. And you thought you were cool for having that canvas book bag. Think again!.
If you got paid for it, would you remember to recycle? The paradigm-shifting RecycleBank thinks you might.
Chow believes that every bite you take is an opportunity for happiness. So why waste it on crap? The brown bag challenge is a collaboration...
Acting on what the Los Angeles Times describes as "a flurry of new bills," California lawmakers have voted to ban single-use plastic bags at...

Bagster, the dumpster in a bag, presents a solution for big clean-ups that's aren't quite big enough for a dumpster.
Australia's drying up, and to keep the continent hydrated, one Sydney-based company proposes towing water across the Tasman sea from New Zealand...
Anders Wilhelmson, a Swedish architect, professor, and entrepreneur, has developed this thing called the Peepoo bag. It's a single-use toilet...
Hey, good news. That compostable SunChips bag we mentioned last May is out on shelves now. It's made from corn and will compost within 14 weeks in...
Nils Völker's grid of inflating and deflating plastic trash bags is mesmerizing. I don't know if this is the most beautiful thing I've ever...
Washington D.C. instituted a 5-cent tax on disposable bags-both paper and plastic-on New Year's Day. Now, when you go to the grocery store in the...
This flyer by the fashion illustrator Julia Durgee offers tongue-in-cheek responses you can employ when a store clerk tries to give you a plastic...
Yes, it did. The District's 5-cent bag tax generated about $150,000 during January to help clean up the Anacostia River, even though residents...
Puma and Fuseproject, the design firm led by Yves Béhar, have managed to make big improvements to the humble shoebox. Cliff Kuang explains: The...
Nothing says all-American business like Walmart. It's the largest grocery retailer in the United States, the largest majority private employer,...
California is considering banning the single-use plastic bag from grocery stores (and adopting a 5-cent charge for paper bags). The legislation,...