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North Carolina Launches A Bag's Life Plastic Bag Recycling Program

March 11th, 2011 in Green plastic bag recycling A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle North Carolina Keep North Carolina Beautiful North Carolina Merchants Association

Community United to Give Tallahassee Super Clean Sweep

February 25th, 2011 in Easy as One reuse Florida Department of Environmental Protection A Bag's Life plastic bag reycling

In support of the 16th Annual Super-Clean Sweep, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Easy As One initiative will team up with A Bag’s Life, Keep Tallahassee-Leon County Beautiful and community volunteers at Tallahassee’s Lake Ella on Saturday, February 26, 2011.

America Recycles Day Kickoff at Virginia Capitol

November 9th, 2010 in plastic bag recycling A Bag's Life America Recycles Day

With help from the Office of the Secretary of Natural Resources, Keep Virginia Beautiful and the Department of Environmental Quality, A Bag's Life will be launched.

Who: A Bag’s Life public-private partnership that reaches across Virginia

Bag Collections Teach Aha Moment

October 30th, 2012 in America Recycles Day Keep North Fulton Beautiful Lowe's Home Improvement recycle plastic bags A Bag's Life

When folks tell me bag collection events are “fun” I have to laugh. Really?

But that’s exactly what Kim Branch, with Keep North Fulton Beautiful, told us about a recent collection they had at the Lowe’s Home Improvement store in Sandy Springs, Georgia, which is minutes from downtown Atlanta.

Georgia's Got Recycling in the Bag

July 30th, 2012 in Girl Scouts Kroger plastic bag recycling Georgia Recycling Coalition Keep Thomas County Beautiful Trex Textraw A Bag's Life

Since launching A Bag’s Life earlier this year, Georgia recycling advocates have been busy getting the word out that there is more to me than a one-time tote.

From the southernmost boarder in historic Thomasville, northwest to Rome at the Alabama line and into the heart of metropolitan Atlanta, folks are embracing the notion that I’m not just a pretty face. :-)

A Bag's Life Recycles Plastic

March 7th, 2012 in Georgia Recycling Coalition A Bag's Life Keep Georgia Beautiful recycyle plastic bags plastic wraps

Good Day Atlanta

Reduce, reuse and recycle.

Georgia has joined six other states in a nationwide initiative to educate people about what they can and cannot recycle. You may be surprised by how much trash is really a recycling treasure.

Gloria Hardagree from the Georgia Recyling Coalition and Sarah Visser from Keep Georgia Beautiful spoke about the program on Good Day Atlanta. http://bit.ly/zNG1GT

 

 

February 28, 2012 Proclamed A Bag's Life Day

March 7th, 2012 in Nathan Deal A Bag's Life Mike Beatty Keep Georgia Beautiful Georgia Recycling Coalition Georgia Food Industry Association

WHEREAS

Using minimum resources, thousands of recyclable plastic bags are manufactured in the United States every year; and

WHEREAS

It is important to reduce, reuse and recycle, and to make responsible choices regarding waste reduction. In Georgia, there is an effective infrastructure in place to recycle plastic bags through retailer take-back collection systems; and

WHEREAS

Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful

December 2nd, 2011 in Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle plastic bag reycling

Today, KPB is launching “A Bag’s Life,” a campaign to promote the recycling of plastic bags and wrapping materials. This includes dry-cleaner bags, bread bags, newspaper bags.  A rule of thumb: If it’s soft plastic, it’s okay. If it crackles when you crinkle it, no go.  

During the city’s deliberations over whether to tax or ban plastic bags from large stores, KPB more or less broke with other environmental groups in promoting plastic bag recycling instead.

America Recycles. Do You?

December 2nd, 2011 in America Recycles Day A Bag's Life reduce reuse recycle Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful plastic bags

A few weeks ago, I was walking into the Weis in West Manchester Township, behind an older gentleman. He was carrying a bag full of plastic bags, and I thought “How nice that he’s recycling those.” Weis has a white, cardboard box outside — next to the trash can — that’s clearly marked “Recycle plastic bags.”

The Keep Philadelphia Beautiful Movement to Launch A Bag's Life Statewide Recycling Campaign, on America Recycles Day

December 2nd, 2011 in Keep Philadelphia Beautiful A Bag's Life Reduce reuse recycle plastic bags America Recycles Day Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful

Recycling has become a major priority in Philadelphia, for groups as diverse as the Phillies to SEPTA to the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability to individuals opting to separate their plastics and paper and discard accordingly.

Now a group called Keep Philadelphia Beautiful, a non-profit focused on litter prevention and upkeep of neighborhoods, is launching “A Bag’s Life,” on America Recycles Day, Tuesday, November 15.

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