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Jodi Rich is the Publisher of Natural Products Marketplace Magazine. She has been working in the Natural Products Industry for almost five years and has an extensive background in sales, marketing, and promotions. She graduated with a communications degree from Arizona State University, which isn't surprising because she's quite a talker. She embraces a healthy lifestyle by mastering crazy yoga poses and spending all of her hard earned money on the latest and greatest products from SunFlower Market. Steve Myers managing editor, has been in the natural products industry since 1997, spreading news and information, and wielding his trusty red pen. Despite a degree in English literature from Arizona State, he is a closet science geek and is attracted to the blips and bleeps behind natural health. "Invincible" in college, Steve later realized pizza and beer does not make a healthy diet, and figured some serious diet change and natural remedy were order--especially liver detox. |
"Rolling Back" the Plastic Bags
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It was announced this week that three northern California Walmart stores are officially charging extra for plastic bags at checkout. Sounds like it’s time to think green and bring your own bag! After all, Natural Products Shoppers have been doing it for years, its definitely time more mass market folks jumped on board.
The going rate for plastic bags at these northern California stores is 15 cents for regular bags or 50 cents for oversized bags. I haven’t seen too many complaints from shoppers yet. Of course, Northern California tends to be a bit eco-aware anyways, so perhaps it was strategy to roll out the program here and slowly phase it into stores in other regions and states.
Charging for bags is step two in Walmart’s “Bring your own Bag Movement,” which was started back in October 2009. The discount retailer has a goal to reduce waste reduction of 33 percent by 2013.
It’s great to see that the retail giant is making a commitment to the environment. In addition to the “Bring your own Bag Movement,” Walmart is actually funding a global initiative project to develop tools to index the sustainability of all consumer packaged goods. They are working with many reputable universities and corporations such as Waste Management, Disney, Cargill, Pepsi and others. Natural Products Marketplace and our parent company, Virgo Publishing, with host a seminar on this very topic next month at our Focus on the Future Conference. I am planning on sitting in for that presentation. I will take notes and let you know how things are progressing.
Jodi Rich
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