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Richard Dodd, Retailers, particularly large supermarkets, appear to be profiting from the sale of more robust shopping bags while doing little to encourage reuse. Are proceeds from these sales monitored and are they actually applied to environmental issues or are the supermarkets getting a free boost to their bottom line?
Asked by wepVad on Oct 29 2007 10:30:18 AM and supported by 33 members
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None of this is about making money for retailers. Actually they are using awfully lot of money for recycling and for the facilities for recycling; they are offering customers incentives like reward points and so on. They are spending money on days when they are handing out those bags for life that can be used over and over again. Stores are not making money out of this, they are heavily investing on this and it is all costing them. In terms of encouraging reuse, this can not be one sided. MORE!

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