Interview: Phoebe Stapleton, Rutgers University, co-author of the study

Assemblyman Herb Conaway is sponsoring a bill that would prohibit them

A state-of-the-art robot is making it easier to create hundreds of advanced materials -- called polymers -- aimed at improving human health.

Environmentalists told the committee that a ban’s far more effective because folks just get accustomed to paying a nickel or dime per bag.