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”
First you took away paper bags because they where bad and then tell us plastic bags are better then now there bad. I would like a discount for checking myself out.
The plastic bags used by Walmart are inferior and rip before you get them out of the store. It is useless to trust your contents will spill onto the floor, parking lot, etc trying to load your groceries. Anytime they wish to stop providing bags is fine with me, providing I haven’t purchased an item that leaks.
I use the plastic bags in small trash cans, I recycle it that way and then burn them.
Need to go back to paper bags. Less trouble and at least they hold up and can be reused.
Is Walmart taking disposable diapers off the shelves. These have far more plastic in them than the bags. I reuse the plastic bags for many things especially in my kitchen garbage can. Cats litter box.
Paper bags use to bring in bugs
What are they planning on using? You want the customer to check their self out and now you want them to carry their stuff they purchased in what????
Make paper bag and plastic bags and any other items biodegradable
First you take away clerks and now you want to take away the the shopping bags. Well I will be taking my business elsewhere. Thank you very much.
Agree 100%
Will be shopping elsewhere
Good luck at that other store they have self scans also
Then they will need to supply customers with biodegradable paper bags.
Go back to brown paper bags, as they were recyclable. Why did we ever go to plastic bags, or anything else if they weren’t recyclable? We humans ruin everything. We are the ones destroying everything!!
You don’t remember? We went plastic because we were killing trees for the paper. So, now we go back to killing trees.