Our correspondent says paper bags are up to five times more expensive than plastic ones.
On each landing small paper bags sat bulging with rubbish, many of them punctured or torn.
Within four years of its launch, YELI has produced more than half a million paper bags.
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Some market traders complain that products such as fish and meat cannot be carried in paper bags.
Take one conundrum tackled by consumers every day at markets around the world: Paper bags or plastic?
At a sleepover last month, they followed a Michelle Phan beauty tutorial on YouTube, showing how to curl hair with paper bags.
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Manhattan Beach, CA and Bellingham, WA already banned plastic bags in grocery stores and paper bags in Bellingham cost an extra 5 cents.
Not for me the little paper bags containing small boxes of tablets, no, it's great bulky plastic bags of bread, flour, pasta and pizza bases.
There is even a correction going on in conspicuous consumption: Net-a-porter, a pricey website, offers to deliver designer outfits to its customers in brown paper bags.
Catherine was particularly considerate of him, bringing in brown paper bags full of apples from her garden and Tupperware containers of mince pies to share with his housemates.
Then, after a version of 'Pop Goes the Weasel' involving paper bags, an enthusiastic Gerard Le Fevre and an audience attempting to sing "increasingly operatic", we had the interval.
It takes four times as much energy to produce a paper bag than it does plastic, and when they're dumped away in landfills, paper bags don't biodegrade any better than plastic.
It was a time when patrons hid drinks in paper bags (the club belatedly received its liquor license in 1968) and the family illegally ran booze around the city in taxi cabs.
It comes in hand-stamped, simple paper bags.
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Afterward, we were asked to swipe through a Pinterest-style gallery of food pictures and drag various images into brown paper bags (or the trash) to denote which we'd like to eat for breakfast, lunch, dinner and for snacks.
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Rows of brown paper shopping bags have index cards affixed to them to indicate their contents.
Pack food and other gear in reusable fabric shopping sacks instead of paper or plastic bags, and use recycled paper napkins.
The Montgomery County tax, which was passed by the County Council Tuesday, covers all paper and plastic bags distributed at check-out by a retail establishment.
The breeze picks up, eddying ticket stubs and wrappers and waxed paper and brown bags and plastic straws and whatever else has been left behind.
To find out which one offered the best value, we compared prices for a common basket of goods, including printer paper, toner cartridges, toilet paper, garbage bags, file folders, envelopes and pens.
The paper, which is turned into wrapping paper, wine bags, journals and Christmas ornaments, is thick, textured and occasionally flecked with small stones and hair-like fibers because 70% of what an elephant eats can pass through its body undigested.
The assistants support pupils with their homework and from time to time the institution provides children with school bags, paper and school books to make it easier for them to attend school.
The tax also applies to bags made from paper, plant-based material, or natural starch.
Sam's Club offered the best deals on garbage bags, toilet paper and paper towels, but charged more for pens, file folders and toner.
Although improper storage such as using plastic bags rather than paper or exposing the evidence to too much humidity or heat can degrade DNA, Hagan says that current technology can even recover complete profiles from poorly stored evidence, the kind usually available in very old cases.
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NPR's Tovia Smith reports on whether shoppers are making a difference by using their own bags instead of picking paper or plastic.
Here the clothes are made, ingeniously, of plastic shopping bags, trash bags, airmail envelopes, paper posters, bottle caps, and fabric printed to look like newspaper.
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Newcastle-under-Lyme uses separate containers and bags for refuse, cardboard, plastics, paper, glass and cans, textiles and garden waste.
Paper is natural, plastic artificial, so it might seem that brown bags are better.
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