Recycled shopping bags
Kroger stores in Lexington collect plastic bags for recycling. What exactly do they do with the bags and how are they recycled?
From Meghan Glynn, Kroger Corporate Communications: Thanks for your question. Plastic bags that are returned to our stores are recycled back into plastic bags and other products such as landscape bricks and plastic lumber. You might also be interested to know that customers in Kroger’s Mid-South division, which includes Lexington, Louisville and Nashville, helped the division recycle 632,000 pounds of plastic bags in 2006. We appreciate their continued interest in helping us reduce the number of plastic bags we use. We are also seeing increasing interest from our customers in reusable shopping bags and totes which are available in Kroger stores.
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Hey, that’s great. And I think it would be helpful to offer those customers with Kroger cards free reusable shopping bags. Maybe supply a redeemable coupon with the mailers they already send out. Afterall, why should the customer have to pay for a bag when it would save the store from supplying them over and over as well as the cost to recycle. Thanks.