I missed one today:
 
Plastic grocery bags' convenience trumps environmental factor

Petroleum-based sacks like those used in Iowa are banned elsewhere, but big change is unlikely here.


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Shoppers like their plastic grocery bags and still continue to choose them overwhelmingly over more environmentally friendly paper bags.

"Consumers like the reusability of plastic sacks and the convenience of being able to grab several at a time," said Fred Greiner, president of Boone-based Fareway Stores Inc., which has been using plastic grocery bags since 1988. The company's 93 stores use in excess of 1 million plastic bags a week.

http://dmregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070419/BUSINESS/704190382/1029/archive

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