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Sack Your
Bags
Whole Foods to stop
giving out plastic grocery bags by Earth Day
Whole Foods will stop handing out
plastic grocery bags by Earth Day, April 22, this year. The mega-retailer
of natural foods announced yesterday that it will instead encourage
customers to bring their own reusable bags; the lazy and forgetful will
have their goodies bundled into 100 percent recycled paper bags.
"More and more cities and countries are beginning to place serious
restrictions on single-use plastic shopping bags since they don't break
down in our landfills, can harm nature by clogging waterways and
endangering wildlife, and litter our roadsides," said Whole Foods'
A.C. Gallo. "Together with our shoppers, our gift to the planet this
Earth Day will be reducing our environmental impact." The grocer
estimates that the plastic-bag ban at all its 270 stores in the U.S.,
Canada, and the U.K. will eliminate the use of about 100 million plastic
sacks between Earth Day and the end of 2008. All together, Americans
throw away about 100 billion plastic bags each year (yes, that's billion
with a B).
Gary Liss
916-652-7850
Fax: 916-652-0485
www.garyliss.com
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