Wednesday, April 16, 2008

WFMW: Reusable grocery bags

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This is a repeat for my normal readers......

Now, we all know I don't really like Wal-Mart. However- I found this pretty sweet deal on their website.......check it out:
1 Million Reusable Bag Giveaway on April 19

As part of Earth Month 2008, Wal-Mart and Kellogg’s will be partnering to give away one million custom-made reusable shopping bags on Saturday, April 19th at 8AM local time*. Plastic bags can take as long as 1,000 years to degrade. Wal-Mart sells reusable shopping bags every day made from recycled materials you can use instead, for just $1.
*While supplies last.

We are trying to be more green, so I went to Wal-Mart tonight and purchased 5 of these bags with my free $5 gc I earned a few months back for taking a survey.
While checking out, the cashier told me that in 2009, Wal-Mart will either not have plastic bags or they will charge a small fee per bag. (like IKEA does now)

5 comments:

Alexandra said...

Cool! Thanks for the info.

Christy said...

The day I stop seeing Wal Mart bags on the side of the street will be a glorious day indeed.

I would LOVE it if they would do away with plastic bags. I've already started carrying many of my own, including a "cooler bag". I think that it's a small thing that you can do to make a difference.

Thanks for posting. Too bad I don't have a Wal Mart here!

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the heads up! I've been wanting to pick some of those up for awhile now.

Jack's Mommy said...

excellent!! thanks so much! i'll definately stop by and pick one up (we have a super walmart on every corner, it seems)

The Daileys said...

Thanks for the tip! I'll be picking some up Saturday then :) I have read so much about using these type of bags and do bring my own bags to the library instead of using the plastic grocery bags, but I think it will be a good switch to do this at the grocery store too- maybe I'll even spend less if I have a limited number of bags to put the stuff in...