Comments on: Reusable Bags at Local Grocery Stores

By: William Hamilton

William Hamilton — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:43:06 +0000

BI-LO gives their discount for any kind of bag you use, provide it is of the approximate size of the bags they sell or bigger. They don’t care where the bag comes from. In fact they’ll take a cardboard box or a pillowcase. I’ve gotten the credit for using a cooler and a basket.

You do have to request the credit at BI-L0

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:11 +0000

Recycling is a waste of time. Most of that stuff gets “downcycled” and a lot of never gets recycled at all. Besides, recycling pollutes almost as much as making it from virgin materials.

I’m unemployed and can’t afford those cloth bags. For at least the past 6 years, I’ve been bring my plastic bags back to the store and re-using them instead of the ones you have to buy. I can re-use a bag about 50 times.

I know it’s better to reduce your plastic by 100% with the cloth bags, instead of only 98% like I am, but everyone even did as much I do, that would be a vast improvement.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:46:45 +0000

Just a bit of a correction… I know that Earth Fare doesn’t offer a refund but they actually donate 10 cents to the local charity of the month for every bag you bring so you won’t personally save the change but your community will benifit which I think is really generous!

This is from their web site:

It’s important to work in harmony with the communities that nourish us. At Earth Fare, in partnership with our customers, we give thousands of dollars annually to small local non-profits through our Friends of Earth Fare Program.

Each month, we select an organization local to each store to be our Friend of Earth Fare. This Friend then becomes the beneficiary of our award-winning bag recycling program. The way it works is simple: each time a customer remembers to bring in a bag to reuse for groceries instead of taking another paper or plastic one, Earth Fare donates 10¢ for each bag to the local non-profit Friend of the month. Not only does this help everyone conserve non-renewable resources used in the production of both paper and plastic bags, it helps immediately impact the health of the community through supporting local organizations.

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