Kroger to eliminate plastic bags chainwide (chainstoreage.com)

The nation’s largest supermarket chain is ditching plastic bags across all its banners — but not all at once.

The Kroger Co. on Wednesday announced it is phasing out single-use plastic bags and moving to reusable bags chainwide, with the transition expected to be completed by 2025. Kroger is undertaking the initiative in phases, and its Seattle-based QFC chain will be the company’s first retail division to phase out single-use plastic bags. The company expects QFC’s transition to be completed in 2019.

The company noted that some estimates suggest that 100 billion single-use plastic bags are thrown away in the U.S. every year. Currently, less than five percent of plastic bags are recycled annually in America, and single-use plastic bags are the fifth-most common single-use plastic found in the environment by magnitude. Kroger said that its decision to eliminate plastic bags partially as the result of listening to its customers, as well as non-governmental organizations and its community partners.
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