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North Carolina Launches A Bag's Life Plastic Bag Recycling Program

March 11th, 2011 in Green plastic bag recycling A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle North Carolina Keep North Carolina Beautiful North Carolina Merchants Association

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful

December 2nd, 2011 in Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle plastic bag reycling

Today, KPB is launching “A Bag’s Life,” a campaign to promote the recycling of plastic bags and wrapping materials. This includes dry-cleaner bags, bread bags, newspaper bags.  A rule of thumb: If it’s soft plastic, it’s okay. If it crackles when you crinkle it, no go.  

During the city’s deliberations over whether to tax or ban plastic bags from large stores, KPB more or less broke with other environmental groups in promoting plastic bag recycling instead.

America Recycles. Do You?

December 2nd, 2011 in America Recycles Day A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful plastic bags

A few weeks ago, I was walking into the Weis in West Manchester Township, behind an older gentleman. He was carrying a bag full of plastic bags, and I thought “How nice that he’s recycling those.” Weis has a white, cardboard box outside — next to the trash can — that’s clearly marked “Recycle plastic bags.”

Come See A Bag's Life at the Fair

October 4th, 2011 in Keep Virginia Beautiful Mil-tek Trex A Bag's Life plastic bag recycling reduce reuse recycle Green

Can you guess how many plastic bags are compressed into approximately a 3 x 3 brick?  If you can, you could win a cool outdoor bench — made from recycled plastic bags — and donated to us by Virginia’s very own Trex Company.  Mil-tek, another Virginia company, baled the bags into the brick so we could bring you this fun contest.

A Bag's Life in Final Weeks of Video Contest

March 23rd, 2011 in plastic bags Green A Bag's Life Virginia High School reduce reuse recycle High School Video Contest

A superhero out to combat waste, an animated talking grocery sac and a fashion report featuring haute couture are among three of the top vote-getters so far in a statewide Virginia high school video contest promoting recycling and reuse of plastic bags. Online voting ends April 3 at 5 p.m. in the A Bag’s Life Video Contest, which will award two top prizes of $1,000 each. 

Plastic Bag Recycling A Little Easier In North Carolina

March 11th, 2011 in Recycle Plastic Bags Green A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle Rep. Ruth Samuelson

By Maggie Alexander (NBC17)

Recycling those plastic bags in North Carolina just got a little easier with a campaign called A Bag's Life.

The campaign was launched Wednesday at the Legislative Building in Raleigh. 

The goal is to get people to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic bags. With the launch of this program, people in NC will now have access to over 1,200 new plastic bag recycling drop off sites at local retail stores across the state.

North Carolina joins A Bag's Life recycling campaign

March 11th, 2011 in Recycle Plastic Bags Green A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle State Sen. Buck Newton

News & Observer (By Sue Stock)

Today, North Carolina became the fourth state to join a plastic bag recycling campaign called A Bag's Life.

North Carolina retailers and legislators gathered on the steps of the Legislative Building in Raleigh to announce the formal launch of the program in North Carolina this morning.

My Carolina Today

March 11th, 2011 in Recycle Plastic Bags Green A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle North Carolina Retail Merchants Association

Andy Ellen, with the North Carolina Retail Merchants Association, explains A Bag’s Life during the 11 am show on Raleigh's NBC 17.

http://bit.ly/hDcf2z

News 14 Carolina

March 11th, 2011 in Green plastic bag recycling reduce reuse recycle A Bag's Life North Carolina

RALEIGH — State lawmakers want to keep plastic bags out of landfills. Wednesday marked the kickoff of the "A Bag's Life" campaign. It calls for residents to reduce, reuse and recycle whenever and wherever they can.

"The bag is not the problem," said Rep. Ruth Samuelson. "We are the problem when we choose not to reuse those bags or figure out a way to recycle."

A website and a phone application are available that show the public how and where to recycle bags.

http://bit.ly/h738v8

Keep NC Beautiful Salutes Campaign to Stop Littering of Plastic Bags & Promote Reuse and Recycling

March 11th, 2011 in Recycle Plastic Bags Green A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle Keep North Carolina Beautiful

A Bag's Life Kicks Off in North Carolina

North Carolina today became the fourth state in the nation to join the “A Bag’s Life” recycling education movement which helps consumers find nearly 1,200 grocery and retail store drop off sites for plastic bags statewide.  North Carolina retailers and legislators gathered at the Legislative Building to announce participation in the awareness campaign, which provides a website (www.abagslife.com/NC) with a zip code locator app.   

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