Posted on 01/22/2008 9:02:52 AM PST by Cat loving Texan
By American Statesman staff | Tuesday, January 22, 2008, 10:07 AM
Whole Foods Market Inc. will eliminate plastic bags at all of its 270 stores in the United States, Canada and England by April 22, Earth Day. The initiative expands on a pilot project that began recently in Austin, San Francisco and Toronto.
The company said it’s the first supermarket chain to launch such an ambitious program.
Although most plastic bags are recyclable, almost all of them end up in landfills or as trash on roadsides and beaches. Environmental groups say it takes more than 1,000 years for the bags to decompose in landfills.
“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 waterways by clogging waterways and endangering wildlife and litter our roadsides,” said A.C. Gallo, Whole Foods’ co-president and chief operating officer.
Gallo said Whole Foods’ program will keep 100 million plastic bags out of landfills between April 22 and the end of the year.
Whole Foods will hand out free reusable shopping bags at its stores today to kick off the program.
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I thought the point of plastic was to save trees.
It must be confusing to be an environmentalist.
Yes. Diapers will be made from wood and be reusable..
You didn’t know we were supposed to go back to cloth diapers and diaper services?
Shame on you.
Hmm, I might start going there if I can stand being in such a leftist bastion. I hate plastic bags. They have no shape and can’t be lined up in an orderly fashion on the counter while you unload them, and they lay on their side in the trunk and discharge all the stuff in them all over the trunk.
When I go to a supermarket, I carry a large canvas bag for the bagger to load groceries into at checkout.
Yup........they’ll probably outlaw plastic.....period. They are the ones that wanted them to begin with.
It must be confusing to be an environmentalist.
Instead they will be killing trees ... You're right, How utterly confusing when you don't know what you believe.
>Environmental groups say it takes more than 1,000 years for the bags to decompose in landfills.
Won’t have to worry about that. Earth will end within 100 years due to global warming.
>Whole Foods’ program will keep 100 million plastic bags out of landfills between April 22 and the end of the year.
Okay. That’s a LOT of bags. Ever think of how many Wal-Mart generates?
How could anyone possibly know this?
Save the earth.....buy a reusable CLOTH bag.
No, plastic water bottles are next.
How are they so sure that these reusable bags won’t end up “in landfills or as trash on roadsides and beaches.”
good for you. i am going to do that also.
That’s why we just bought reusable bags from Wegmanns. They’re only 99 cents and they fit a lot in them. Much easier for me to handle a couple reusable bags and a toddler than a bunch of plastic bags, that cut into my wrist, and a toddler.
And they load exactly 2 items in each plastic bag, so instead of 4-5 paper bags, you get 40,000 plastic ones to carry...10% of which will break...or you will ‘miss’ that one handle on one of them and it will spill everywhere.
THERE IS TROUBLE IN THE FORREST, THERE IS TROUBLE WITH THE 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 waterways by clogging waterways and endangering wildlife and litter our roadsides,” said A.C. Gallo, Whole Foods’ co-president and chief operating officer.”
Dope! They’re not single use. We use them over and over till they break...
The Earth doesn’t need saving.
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