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To: Neeka who wrote (150611)	8/24/2007 12:00:50 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

Save the Earth!!! PCC Natural Market to get rid of plastic bags for good YouNewsTV™ Come October, shoppers will have the option of paper or paper at PCC Natural Market. The organic grocery chain is getting rid of plastic bags, and the change has the plastic bag industry up in arms. The store wants its shoppers to use paper bags or bring their own reusable cloth sacks. KOMO 4 News brought some on line studies to PCC, which claim plastic bags may not be so bad. But Trudy Bialic with PCC didn't buy it, and said it's best to stop producing plastic bags even if it means more paper bags must be made. "Paper is at least a renewable resource," she said. "Tree farms do absorb carbon dioxide, tree farms actually pull some of the greenhouse gases out of the air." The store is even encouraging customers to bring their own boxes to use instead of bags. And some say those measures may go too far. Michael Johnson, who runs Polybag LLC, says any plastic-bag ban unfairly targets his industry. "They (big companies) have done study after study and spent just hundreds of thousands of dollars proving this stuff is based on faulty information," he said. "Plastic bags are not the culprit that everybody makes them out to be." Bialic says though it may be a small step, it will be a step nonetheless. "When we look at what can we do, what kind of simple choices can we make to improve human health and improve environmental health, this is a simple thing everybody can do." This debate has triggered lawsuits and debates on a much bigger scale. In April, the city of San Francisco enacted a plastic-bag ban. Several other cities are considering the same ban, including Seattle, Portland and Baltimore.