Grocer Big Y to Phase Out Single-use Plastic Bags
The grocer will offer special discounted pricing and promotions on its reusable bags during 2019 to ensure a smooth transition.
Source: www.waste360.com
The grocer will offer special discounted pricing and promotions on its reusable bags during 2019 to ensure a smooth transition.
Source: www.waste360.com
Rob O’Grady is an engineer and father of three who has been stirred to action by his reflections on environmental issues and his everyday encounters with the perversity of our current system. Trained in the discipline of “sustainability engineering,” he discerned early in his career that to talk of sustainability in the world of business and politics was “to pour from the empty into the void,” because the underlying context is subversive of such efforts. Rejecting a career dealing in irreconcilable contradictions, he went into the construction industry and helped to build a thriving company that employs some 150 people. But he continued to think about environmental and economic issues.
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