Are Plastic Ziploc Bags Suddenly Green or Greenwashed?
Every year I visit the San Francisco Green Festival and wander up and down the aisles of vendor booths, looking for interesting plastic-free products but always finding a ton of plastic packaging. Â Organic foods packaged in plastic. Â Natural drinks in plastic bottles. Â Compostable products shrink-wrapped in plastic. Â But this year, my jaw hit the floor when I stumbled across a booth I’d never have expected to see at the Green Festival: Â Ziploc.
Why would a brand of plastic bags have a booth at the Green Festival? Â Because they have partnered with Recyclebank to reward people who pledge to take back their Ziploc bags to grocery store recycle bins to be recycled. Â Notice: Ziploc is not actually taking back the bags. Â They are rewarding people who go to the Ziploc page on the Recyclebank website, enter a code from the Ziploc box, and promise to take the bags back to the store.
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