[Magdalen] Whole Foods wins !!!

[Grace Cangialosi]

Our local Whole Foods does have a neat policy on this. If you bring your own bags, you have a choice between getting back 5 cents per bag or having that donated to one of two charities--the charities change every month.

> On Apr 8, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/04/2016 04:46, Scott Knitter wrote:
>> You should shop in Chicago and add one of our new thick-plastic bags to your collection. The council banned the very thin bags, which aren't reusable more than a couple of times and contain metals such as chromium, but stores are allowed to give out a new thicker no-metals bag that can be reused 125 times. I find the new bags easier to stuff into a briefcase or even coat pocket for reuse. Some chains opt for all paper bags...Whole Foods and Mariano's do this. And of course cloth bags.
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>> And we use our big blue IKEA bag for big shopping...especially great for hauling boxes of canned soda up to our third-floor walk-up.
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On Apr 7, 2016, at 10:17 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> A nice, useful, and cheap souvenir is the more permanent carrier bag that better stores sell.  Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsbury's in England have come through nicely.  The Waitrose one is often admired, being capacious and made of some sort of hempen material.  I never thought at the time to get a Whole Foods one.
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> In the past few years (England last October was the last one) the various countries in the UK have imposed a mandatory 5p charge on the supply of thin bags.  The customer pays and it's meant to go to good causes.  A number of stores now sell thicker bags for a modest charge.  The intention is to reduce landfill and the number of tgose thin bags vlowing around.
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> Roger