Posts Tagged ‘ paper-or-plastic ’

Per-bag fees troublesome in difficult economic times – Daily Leader

March 1, 2010
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... used by customers to carry groceries and other items, but whether if or how much shoppers will pay for reusable bags
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Would you pay 5 cents for a plastic grocery bag? – Gillette News Record

February 28, 2010
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WASHINGTON — For decades the standard question at U.S. grocery store check-out counters has been “Paper or Plastic?” But since January, consumers in the U.S. capital have faced a different question: “Will you pay 5 cents for a bag ...
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D.C. Council member, Safeway to give away 500 bags – WTOP Radio

February 27, 2010
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... alcohol to charge customers five cents for each disposable bag made of paper or plastic. Those fees go toward the Anacostia River Cleanup and Protection Fund
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Nickel fee on bags cutting use in Washington – Baltimore Sun

February 27, 2010
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WASHINGTON — - "Paper or plastic?" is no longer the question most often on store clerks' lips in the nation's capital these days when shoppers are buying food. Instead, cashiers here routinely ask customers if they want a bag at all, since they ...
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Pawleys Island woman creates eco-friendly bags – WPDE

February 26, 2010
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A man by the name of Gordon Dancy introduced the plastic grocery bag to America in 1977. Now, thirty years later, Dancy's daughter has bagged an eco-friendly idea that has plastic bags checking out. Paper or plastic
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Plastic bags at U.S. retailers — to pay or not to pay? – Mercury

February 24, 2010
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WASHINGTON — For decades the standard question at U.S. grocery store check-out counters has been "Paper or Plastic?" But since January, consumers in the U.S. capital have faced a different question: "Will you pay 5 cents for a bag?" Europeans have ...
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City of Tallahassee encourages citizens to think before they throw – Tallahassee Democrat

February 24, 2010
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Paper or Plastic-I'll Take Neither" is a reusable bag program. The purpose is to discourage citizens from creating waste by providing them with reusable bags
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