Portland is poised to become the next city to ban the plastic bag. Mayor Sam Adams for the past few weeks has been busy pitching the city’s Plastic Bag Ban, which would prohibit grocery stores and pharmacies from ...
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Plastic grocery bags are bad, but are the reusable bags any better? – Daily Journal of Commerce
D.C. Shopping Bag Tax Brings In Nearly $1 Million – Earth 911
This past January, D.C.
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So you want to be a – Stamford Advocate
Eight dollars later, the bulk was tucked in her reusable bag and she was off to the next purchase. Such is the typical exchange in a food economic system that has increasingly won converts over the past several years. Locavore, the term used to ...
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King County campaign takes a hard line against plastic bags – Seattle Times
The best option is the reusable bag," she said. For those who forget their reusable grocery bags, "here is the alternative." For the past month, as part of a challenge by King County, students at Renton's Kennydale Elementary School have been ...
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Peerless Coffee Brews More Efficient Waste Management – GreenBiz
Oakland, CA — For the past 10 years, Peerless Coffee & Tea has found recyclers for its coffee waste, slashed the amount of packaging it trashes and started making deliveries with reusable crates, all in all saving more than $110,000 a year and ...
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Saturday Enviro interruption – Milk in a bag? – DAILY KOS
This past week Sainsbury , a grocery store in the UK, started selling " milk in a bag ". For many that may seem weird, but "milk in a bag" is already used in many places as a more environmentally friendly alternative to bottles and plastic jugs.
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Ask Umbra’s pearls of wisdom on supermarket shopping – Grist
Sometimes when I’m down in the stacks researching answers to your latest dilemmas, I enjoy taking a stroll down Ask Umbra archives lane. Here are some glossy tidbits I culled from my past advice on lessening your impact when it comes to grocery ...
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Wish: New Orleans newest stores offer a something for everyone – New Orleans Times-Picayune
Over the past two years, the reusable tote bag has gone from stylish trend to everyday practice. It's almost embarrassing these days to walk into a grocery store without one. So the new Repax bags, created by three New Orleans women, aren't a new ...
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Marin supervisors used personal touch to distribute $612,000 – Marin Independent Journal
Marin County supervisors distributed more than $612,000 from a discretionary fund over the past 19 months to a wide range of charities, civic and community groups and pet projects.
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