L Loblaw kicks-off the new year by launching its plastic bag reduction program in the City of Toronto stores and announcing partnership with WWF-Canada
On the eve of Loblaw Companies Limited's Toronto launch of its "Together We Can Help the Environment" campaign aimed at reducing plastic shopping bag use, Loblaw encourages Torontonians to take action on protecting the environment by remembering to bring reusable bags or boxes when they go grocery shopping.
Starting Monday, January 12, 2009, Loblaw corporate and participating franchise stores in the City of Toronto will no longer provide complimentary plastic shopping bags at check-out and charge $0.05 per plastic shopping bag, when they are requested by customers. Toronto is the lead city for the campaign, which will
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Charging for bags is a good idea to get people to actually think about using their own bags. I went for a year mostly forgetting the bulky canvas ones in my trunk! I finally got some that fit in my purse ( http://www.breezybags.com ), so I ALWAYS have 5 sturdy, washable bags with me.
But I heard that that the $0.05 bags were going to be "better" than the standard plastic bags. Does that mean heavier and actually MORE wasteful?
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