NJ Department of Environmental Protection Acting Commissioner Shawn LaTourette urged the public in a video message to switch to reusable shopping bags in advance of the state’s new law protecting New Jersey’s environment against certain single-use plastics. This law takes effect next year. The nonprofit NJ Clean Communities Council, a longtime NJDEP partner that oversees […]

New Jersey’s food retail industry is perplexed and stunned at the barrage of attacks by some environmentalists on our request to temporarily pause bans on single-use bags during the COVID-19 public health emergency. The suggestion that this is somehow a nefarious master plan to undermine bag bans is a farfetched conspiracy theory peddled by extremists who ignore […]

Immediate public health concerns are taking priority over longer term environmental goals in the Garden State, as a number of local bans on single-use plastic bags have been rolled back for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to NJ Food Council President & CEO Linda Doherty, retailer concerns about bags are two-fold, with the […]