Most everyone knows and uses Walmart as their local shopping center. Lately, Walmart has made some pretty big changes. They recently decided to remove plastic bags from the check-out stations at all their stores.
Removing Plastic Bags
Walmart had made a goal recently to be a zero-waste company. That is a massive goal and will take a few years to get in place.
One way to achieve that goal is to stop using plastic bags.
Plastic bags are not good for the environment and it’s time for this change.
According to Walmart, “A shopping bag is at the center of the final interaction of almost every in-store purchase – be that your weekly grocery trip, a quick milk run or back-to-school shopping. While the convenience of the plastic retail bag cannot be disputed, the average working life of one of these bags is only 12 minutes. It’s estimated that 100 billion plastic bags are being used annually in the U.S. alone, and less than 10 percent of them are recycled.”
This goal to stop using plastic bags will take around three years to complete.
Beyond the Bag
To achieve their goal, Walmart has teamed up with “Beyond the Bag” a company that finds ways to eliminate plastic bags that are better for the world.
CVS Health, Walmart, and Target are all a part of this mission.
Beyond the Bag shares their plan of “identifying, testing and implementing viable design solutions and models that more sustainably serve the purpose of the current retail bag.”
How You Can Help
You can help with this initiative too!
Beyond the Bag is wanting to hear your ideas on how to eliminate plastic bags. If you have a creative idea for a new eco-friendly bag, be sure to submit your thoughts!
You can go to Beyond the Bag Challenge to submit your ideas.
Submissions are due by September 10th as they will start getting to work after that.
Plastic bags are just one part of Walmart’s ultimate goal to be zero waste. Are you excited or dreading this new change?
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127 comments on “Walmart is Removing Plastic Bags From All Their Stores”
What is wrong with using paper bags ?
Stop putting one item in a bag when using online order with pickup
Use bags that dissolve after a short time..Give a dime off if you bring your own bag…paper bags are still here…
yes
, go back to the orginal paper bag !
Paper bags – you can make paper with hemp, bamboo, wood, recycled paper, etc… paper bags are also biodegradable. Simple solution: go back to what works!
Do away with them and just like they used to charge customers for bags, instead give them a credit for bringing their own bags.
Bring your own shopping bags. How hard is that? There are all kinds of shopping bags out there to buy that can be used over again. Or, make your own, Get the kind that suits you and use them. Problem solved. I’m not getting why this is a problem.
I don’t care what they are made of as long as they have handles.
Hemp bags
Cloth bags that Walmart sells are cheap, sturdy, durable, long lasting and all it takes is to carry several inside of one when we walk into any store – – – I wrote about having larger checkout spaces to do our own checkout and still think that is important to customers – but these cloth bags are a great option to plastic bags AND a LOT easier to carry into our homes or out to cars or wherever we want them to go…….over and over and over………..
If they could make those bags with a sturdy bottom it would help. Don’t mind using them, just don’t like the sag when you pick them up.
Costco, reuses, their boxes and they r paper, so biodegradable.