The Connecticut Food Association is calling it an "unintended consequence" of the state's tax on plastic bags; Retailers are losing their plastic shopping baskets after people take the baskets to ...

MIDDLETOWN, N.J. – Grocery store customers are walking off with those plastic hand baskets you find in the supermarket, an apparent consequence of New Jersey's plastic bag ban that went into effect ...

Grocery store customers are walking off with those plastic hand baskets you find in the supermarket, an apparent consequence to New Jersey's plastic bag ban that went into effect this past spring.

State and local governments say they have reduced consumers' reliance on single-use plastic bags through bans, fees and taxes. They have also collected millions of dollars from those fees. But where ...

Shortly after New Jersey enacted a strict plastic bag ban three months ago, employees at the Aberdeen ShopRite noticed something unusual — the store’s handheld plastic shopping baskets were vanishing.