[Vision2020] Co-op Offers Cash Incentive to Use Reusable Bags

[Bill London]

Moscow Food Co-op Offers Cash Incentive to Use Reusable Bags
 
The Moscow Food Co-op is now offering a refund of ten cents each time customers use their own permanent shopping bag. This includes backpacks, bike panniers, string bags, cloth bags, and anything else that is “permanent.” Recycled paper or plastic bags will not qualify for the discount.
“We respect those who bring in recycled paper and plastic bags, but we want to encourage habits that will help us get out of the cycle of using disposable bags and non-renewable resources,” said Annie Hubble, the Co-op’s front end manager.
Hubble was motivated to introduce this incentive after reading about the topic of shopping bags in the most recent issue of “Talking Trash,” published by Moscow’s Waste Reduction Education Program.
“The succinct and informational article about the reasons why neither paper nor plastic are good choices so shocked me that I felt I had to do something in my department at the Co-op,” Hubble said. Going without paper or plastic isn’t so unusual, Hubble notes.
“When I was a child, we all automatically gathered shopping bags before we went shopping, because the shops did not offer bags,” Hubble recalled. 
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