Username: Password:

Serving people, planet and profit: An 'integrated bottom-line' approach to looking at business from the next generation of MBAs

Visit Triple Pundit

hr

The Plastic Bag: To Re-Use or Not to Re-Use

Posted on October 07, 2008

The Wall Street Journal ran a fascinating piece a couple of weeks ago on the emergence of the reusable bag as the go-to green choice of retailers nationwide and the eco-disaster these bags represent. A lot of leading retailers offer reusable bags they're the hip new green thing to be doing and some municipalities (San Francisco) and retailers (Ikea) have taken the initiative to forbid the use of the ubiquitous disposable plastic bag. But at what cost? Most reusable bags are usually comprised of a percentage of reused content meaning that most of those reusable bags are usi...

Original article link


Tags:
environmental issues , fossil fuels , investors , journal , studies , study
default explanation