Digital Editor Dollar General will explore viable solutions resulting from the Beyond the Bag Challenge that can align with the operations of existing stores and customer needs.
Striving to lessen its impact on the environment, Dollar General Corp. (DG) has joined the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag as its value sector lead partner. The consortium, through its Beyond the Bag Initiative, aims to identify, test and implement viable design solutions that can more sustainably serve the purpose of the current plastic retail bag.
Approximately 100 billion single-use plastic bags, typically made of nonrenewable fossil fuels, are used in the United States annually, and less than 10% of these are recycled.
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US: Tops ties in produce department sustainability efforts
In its quest to ensure that even the tiniest detail of its operation is reducing environmental waste, Tops Markets LLC has partnered with TagBack by Bedford Industries to reuse and recycle small but essential produce tags and twist ties. The program enables customers to collect their produce twist ties, tags and labels and deposit them in the designated TagBack box on their next shopping trip. Bedford then sorts and recycles them in-house using its own equipment. The tags are upcycled into other useable products rather than accumulating in landfills.
Digital Editor Albertsons has joined the Beyond the Bag Initiative, complementing the plastic reduction efforts already underway at its stores.
Adding to its current efforts to reduce waste,
Albertsons Cos. has now also joined the Beyond the Bag Initiative to replace single-use retail plastic bags.
Beyond the Bag, launched by the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag, is a multiyear collaboration across retail sectors that aims to identify, test and implement innovative design solutions that serve the function of today’s single-use plastic retail bag, delivering ease and convenience for consumers while striving to lessen the impact on the environment.
Grocery giant becomes coalition partner to help drive Beyond the Bag Initiative
Albertsons Cos., the nation’s second-largest supermarket operator, has joined the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag as a supporting partner to help reduce plastic waste through the Beyond the Bag Initiative.
The Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag was launched last summer by the Center for the Circular Economy at green investment firm Closed Loop Partners to test options to the single-use plastic shopping bag now used by mass retailers nationwide. The coalition’s three-year Beyond the Bag Initiative calls on retailers to “think outside the box” to address the global waste issue of plastic shopping bags while upholding consumer convenience.