Article 4GZCP Grocery store urges customers to rethink plastic with embarrassing bags

Grocery store urges customers to rethink plastic with embarrassing bags

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Leyland Cecco in Toronto
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4GZCP)

East West Market hopes humorous bags like 'Wart Ointment Wholesale' will persuade shoppers to shun single-use plastic bags

If concern over the climate crisis or revulsion over the contamination of the food chain are not enough to change consumer behaviour, one grocery store is hoping that another emotion may persuade people to shun single-use plastic bags: shame.

Related: Canada will ban 'harmful' single-use plastics as early as 2021

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