Whole Foods to stop using plastic bags in all 270 stores

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Statesman Business blog
Whole Foods to stop using plastic bags in all 270 stores

By American Statesman staff | Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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.

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