Whole Foods plans to stop offering plastic grocery bags
Submitted by Kemo on 23 January, 2008 - 14:54.
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Whole Foods plans to stop offering disposable plastic grocery bags in all 270 stores in the USA, Canada and United Kingdom. In replace of the plastic bags Whole Foods will offer several option including free paper bags and reusable bags for 99 cents. Customers are also welcome to bring their own bags to the store with them.
Americans throw away about 100 million plastic grocery bags annually. It takes 1000 or so years for a plastic grocery bag to decompose in a landfill. As opposed to paper grocery bags that only take 2-5 month to decompose in a landfill. So yea plastic grocery bags take up a lot of space in our landfills.
Not to mention plastic grocery bags also find their way into lakes and rivers were they kill fish and birds that get tangled up in them.
Whole Foods is really taking the lead in helping protect our environment. Hopefully other grocery food chains will soon ban plastic grocery bags.
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Instead of banning the use
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