Kroger Plastic Bag Recycling

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Kroger plastic bag recycling.

Plastic recycling is a key feature of kroger 39 s efforts. The city of cincinnati s forthcoming ban on single use plastic bags has raised a lot of questions many of them concerning kroger the biggest user of plastic bags in the region. How does the kroger co. Glass plastics and beverage and food cans must be washed.

Kroger will also continue to offer in store recycling services for plastic bags and other plastic films. The program includes flexible plastic packaging such as produce bags bread bags and plastic overwrap from household items such as. Thank you for recycling your plastic bags and wraps. They must be returned to participating drop off locations such as retail stores for recycling.

Kroger s stores have focused on achieving zero waste for several years recycling program accepts clean and dry plastic shopping bags through kroger s plastic recycling program plastic bags dry cleaning bags kroger s bag2bag recycling program with its bag barrels at the front of every store recoups 14 000 tons of plastic bags a year. Our manufacturing plants a decade ago kroger manufacturing launched an initiative to go zero waste to landfill to protect our planet reduce costs and help generate. Once you drop off those plastic bags and packaging in our bin where does it go. Everything is sent away to be made into composite decking.

In 2019 kroger recycled more than 53 7 million pounds of plastic in our operations including the plastic film we recycle from our front of store collection program. Items in plastic bags cannot be recycled as the bags can get caught in the sorting facilities and put employees at risk of hazards. Our stores collect this single use plastic packaging from you and combine it with other plastic packaging used in store. During this covid 19 pandemic we urge you to recycle your plastic bags wraps and other film packaging at drop off.

Rear of the store access via east lot. 71st and binford 5810 e. Plastic bags wraps typically do not get recycled in curbside bins.