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Kroger Celebrates 'A Bag's Life' This Earth Day

Kroger, in partnership with several local organizations, is celebrating Earth Day by encouraging customers to value “A Bag’s Life” – a recycling movement that locates drop-off sites for plastic bags and wraps, including the 215 Kroger stores across its Atlanta Division that will accept customers’ plastic bags between April 16 – 22.

Shoppers Urged to Recycle Plastic Bags

(Greensburg) -- An environmental organization is calling on Pennsylvanians to recycle their plastic bags. Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful has launched a program called "A Bag's Life" that sets up drop-off locations for plastic bags at 30 retailers and 1,400 locations across the state.

Group president Shannon Reiter says grocery bags aren't the only types of bags that can be recycled.

Talk about 'Gimme a second chance...

Kudos to Kroger and Target for rockin’ on their recycling programs.

Through Kroger’s Plastic Recycling Program, plastic bags, dry-cleaning bags and plastic shrink-wrap can be recycled in all stores. Plastic bags are collected and recycled into other products like plastic landscape bricks, plastic lumber and other plastic bags.

This program resulted in 26 million pounds of plastic being recycled from stores and distribution centers last year. This represents a 180 percent increase in plastic recycling since 2007!

Around the Statehouse

(The Associated Press) -- The North Carolina Retail Merchants Association and Keep North Carolina Beautiful campaign unveiled at the Legislative Building a statewide effort to encourage recycling of the nearly ubiquitous plastic grocery bags.