Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

As usually I helped him carry his bags into his study.

Because of our efforts, our daughter Georgia did decide to donate a large bag of toys to a little girl whose mother was unable to pay for her holiday due to illness.

Campers, in my eyes, were people who enjoyed insect bites, ill-cooked meals, and uncomfortable sleeping bags.

Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

However, longer-lasting reusable bags often require more energy to make.

If you want time to have breakfast with your family, save some time the night before by setting out clothes, shoes, and bags.

It was a woman, pushing an old shopping trolley which was piled with bags.

It was kept in a plastic bag with a seal.

One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.

Remove the skin and place them in plastic bags or containers and freeze.

The bags are prohibited in some 90 cities in California, including Los Angeles.

The industry has also taken aim at the product that has appeared as its replacement: reusable shopping bags.

The main question is whether you want your arms inside or outside the sleeping bag.

The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

The stronger a reusable bag is, the longer its life and the more plastic-bag use it cancels out.

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

Then a bottle of cold orange juice, a bag of chips and a pack of ted Williams baseball cards.

They are less strong than plastic bags.

They hope paper bags will be banned someday too and want shoppers to use the same reusable bags for years.

To my surprise, I found that she would pack a paper bag full of canned goods and head out every morning at about nine.

When going for a walk, take along a small garbage bag.

When we handed him the bag of food, he lit up and thanked us with watery eyes.

Verifone, the company that makes the store’s card reader would not confirm or deny that the plastic bag trick worked.

Some, like Mr.Azar’s plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all.

Azar reached beneath the counter for a black plastic bag.

Some eyewitnesses report that a bag was about to be loaded on board, but it exploded during a security check.

I'd like to go camping with you this weekend, but I don't have a sleeping bag.

She can lend the man a sleeping bag

Yes, but… W: According to the statement you made, you had never seen the hand gun before it was found in your bag

Tell me , where was your personal bag during the flight

He was the only person who could have opened my bag while I was asleep.

Stealing a fellow passenger's bag

He is suspected of having slipped something in Kumar's bag.