Plastic Bag Update

[dreamshark]

If anybody cares... the Uptown Rainbow still has a plastic bag recycling bin (a little one, inside by the service desk). The Richfield Rainbow and apparently ALL the Cub Foods have recently gotten rid of theirs. I'm not sure how they can do this, because I distinctly remember that about 15 years ago Minneapolis almost passed a law banning plastic grocery store bags, then compromised by allowing both plastic and paper provided the stores offered a way to recycle the plastic. I'm not aware of that law being repealed.

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[pameladean]

http://www.recycleminnesota.org/plasticbags.htm

Briefly, the company that used to collect all those bags from the grocery stores had an equipment failure and instead of repairing the equipment, just decided not to collect plastic bags any more. The article implies that stores are somewhat lazily contemplating alternatives -- there is an end market for the bags, in companies that make plastic lumber; it's just the collecting that is the problem.

Pamela