If you're a shopper who frets about the environment, your best bet is to bring your own reusable bags to the store and eschew the "disposal" ones. If you're a shopper who frets about the environment but forgets to bring the reusable bags every time — like, say, me — then you should make sure you recycle rather than dispose of the bags you're given.
Wegmans Food Markets, which likely hands out more "disposal" bags than anyone else in town as well, has launched a campaign to encourage it customers to return even more of those bags to its stores for recycling. (The company also encourages customers to carry reusable bags, and sells them at for a modest $1.)
As we wrote a while ago, Wegmans and its customers already are pretty active recyclers. About two million pounds of the thin plastic bags are returned to the recycling bins near stores' entrances. That material is sent to the bag manufacturer in Texas, who incorporates it in new Wegmans bags.
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