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WASHINGTON - The inevitable question faced by shoppers at the grocery checkout - how to tote their food home - soon may get simpler.
Faced with a growing push in some states and cities to ban or limit use of plastic bags, many grocers are encouraging consumers to recycle bags or bring their own. At least one, Whole Foods Market Inc., plans to do away with the bags altogether.See the full content of this document
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Bans Forcing Grocers to Rethink the Plastic Bag
But many grocers report that about 90 percent of their shoppers still ask for plastic. And the bag makers, a billion-dollar industry, oppose bans, calling instead for consumers to reuse or recycle the bags. They favor recent legislation that encourages the ...
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