Most of the major grocery stores in this area already offer a rebate on your
grocery total (approximately 5 cents/bag) if you bring your own reusable bags.
Our recycle system takes kraft paper bags and the grocery stores like Safeway
have a place you can recycle your plastic bags. Of course, Oregon has been a
leading green state for years.
> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:26:46 -0600> From: [email protected]> To:
> [email protected]; [email protected]> Subject: RE:
> [Texascavers] plastic bags> > I realize that what I am proposing is
> impractical in today's> disposable/convenience oriented lifestyle but it does
> make sense. Sam's> is doing it. Most plastic (and paper) bags come from
> grocery stores and> most of these stores issue a form of small plastic tags
> for store> discounts. These stores would save a considerable amount of money
> in a> short time if they gave every customer who wanted a tag a more>
> substantial bag or even two in which to transport their purchases. Many>
> people would not buy enough to want a bag or to bring the one that they> were
> given. The store could then discontinue the use of all bags. If all> or most
> major grocery stores in a given area joined in this effort, none> would lose
> market share. When the regional store executives were shown> the economic
> (and environmental) savings of this plan, they might be> sold on its
> implementation. They could advertise this as their effort in> combating this
> problem. I could site many other benefits but most of you> know them. It
> works for Sam's.> Fritz> > > -----Original Message-----> From: Mixon Bill
> [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 7:56 PM>
> To: Cavers Texas> Subject: [Texascavers] plastic bags> > For those of you who
> wonder how much of the planet's resources are > squandered by those plasic
> grocery-store bags: An article in todays' > New York Times mentions that
> China uses 3 billion bags a day, at the > cost of 37 million barrels of oil
> per year. Taking that at face value > (always risky with newspaper reports),
> this computes to be 0.2 fluid > ounces of oil per bag. (It is easy to get a
> large product when you use > a large enough multiplier. This is similar to
> those people who write > about how much power the country would save if all
> those TV sets > really turned off. They're hoping you won't divide by
> 200,000,000 to > see how little it would save _you_.)> > For comparison, a
> high-milage car driven only one mile to the store > and back will burn 10
> ounces of gasoline. I'm 10 miles from my HEB.... > -- Mixon>
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