School Fundraiser: Bag Recycling

Elementary schools recycling bags for cash

December 1, 2006
http://www.thedailycitizen.com/articles/2006/12/02/news/local_news/news03.txt
By Pat Hambrick, The Daily Citizen, Searcy, Arkansas

People do a lot of extra shopping this time of year and end up with stacks of empty shopping bags that have to be dealt with. An alternative approach allows locals to support a local school, declutter your home, and do something good for the environment — all by simply taking your plastic shopping bags to your local elementary school, where students are earning money...

A Million a Minute

A million a minute. A million a minute. A million a minute. Think about that. And less than .67 percent of plastic bags are recycled:

Plastic bags costly for environment

November 13, 2006
http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/11/13/4557c427e265a
Red&Black.com, Athens, GA

Every minute in the United States, we use approximately 1 million plastic bags. Target alone purchases 1.2 billion bags yearly for their customers - add to that Wal-Mart, Kroger, Best Buy and almost every other place you shop, and you can start to see how our annual total is more than 100 billion bags...