Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to slash its global plastic shopping bag waste by 33 percent over the next five years, eliminating more than 135 million pounds of trash, reported The Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Herald. If the plan succeeds, the retailer would cut the equivalent of 9 billion plastic bags from stores each year. The effort was announced recently at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York and includes a plan to encourage customers to use reusable shopping sacks, including a line of bags that will be available in U.S. stores in October for 50 cents each, while offering recycling services for the plastic bags already used by customers, it added.
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