Neither! Single-use shopping bags create a tremendous amount of waste for something that’s often in our lives for fewer than 5 minutes. Each year, the US consumes 30 BILLION plastic and 10 BILLION paper grocery bags requiring 14 million trees and 12 million barrels of oil.
99 Ranch Market
Submitted by rethinkw-superadmin on Wed, 07/11/2012 - 16:31.
99 Ranch Market, in Foster City, began their year with only about 1% diversion. Recology conducted a waste audit, and presented the 99 Ranch Market management team with various diversion opportunities through the BizSMART collection services. 99 Ranch agreed to turn their all-garbage compactor to compost only, and by pulling out all of the plastic material from the compactor to recycle them! As a result their diversion increased to 88.8% by the end of 2011.
